The readings on chapter 7 made me realize that all of the treatment I received form any teacher or parents I can now give them names. The classical conditioning of why i hated Spanish class in high school, it wasn't because I hated the subject, no I hated the teacher that put me through so many examples that I had to read out loud. On page 258 we learned about the punishments and reinforcements. At a young age you find out that certain behaviors had different consequences. So when my brother and I were in church and we would eat candy, my mother would look over at us and give us gesture. My mother never took american sign language but she had the sign for Stop down packed. Once we had that sign we would know what would happen after church. Eventually we started to eat candy in the car before, so we wouldn't get yelled at by mom. Then we found out if we didn't eat candy in church we would get ice cream after lunch. This is a positive reinforcement for not doing something negative. My mother used to catch us doing everything, we could never get away and eventually we would get things taken away which would be getting the removal punishment.
I think as I become a teacher that there are many ways to get a student to achieve in their best nature, but sometimes you have to do all the types of reinforcement. I have seen it as a coach and experienced it as an athlete. If you perform well or succeed you will get a positive reward, if you act out and don't do as you are not told you will get a negative reward. This is a perfect segway into our discussion about competition because negative doesn't always mean negative. As we discussed about competition many of us agreed that competition in the classroom is a good thing to have. Even though a student may not succeed they are going to (hopefully) study harder to do better during the next competition. I feel that students should be able to learn from their mistakes and they need to fail. Punishment isn't always bad, but it can help a student be better at whatever they want to accomplish. (If given the right or correct motivation to change). The only thing that we can do as educators is help guide them to make the correct choice for themselves.
-Landon
Reading Chapter 7 I also found to easier to keep all the types of punishment and reinforcement straight be relating it to my experiences growing up. I just remember hating my fourth grade teacher because our class was chatty and she would always give us a silent lunch. Sounds like nothing but that is pretty much the only thing I remember from fourth grade.
ReplyDeleteThroughout my childhood I remember good behavior equaled some type of reward at either school or home. On the other hand bad behavior lead to a some type of punishment or losing something.
Working in a school you can see how each term can be effective in your classroom.