Re: Assignment #2 -- Life-span Human Development

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Subject: Re: Assignment #2

Author:
Allie Kaufman

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Date Posted: 23:25:53 06/13/10 Sun
In reply to: Dr. M-J 's message, "Assignment #2" on 19:25:40 06/11/10 Fri

>Assignment 2 (Behaviorism): June 13
>Post a response to the following question by first
>clicking onto "Post a Reply to this Message"
>
>Think of a problem/situation in your area (teaching or
>counseling or as a parent) where you would use of have
>used behavioristic or social learning theories.
>Provide an example of the problem/situation and the
>solution.

I have had the opportunity to use behavioristic and social learning theories in several work contexts. I spent two years teaching kindergarten and first grade, and I had one student in particular who stood out during my two years. I started with him in kindergarten, and he struggled with following the class rules, doing things like taking his shoes off in class or bullying other students. After several frustrating months of trying to send him to the office, a punishment that never actually decreased the negative behaviors, I took a different approach. I realized that he did not receive a lot of positive attention and comments from others, but when he received a compliment or a word of praise, he beamed with pride. I started finding things to praise him for, the "catch him being good" approach. He responded to praise by increasing his positive behaviors (i.e. keeping his shoes on in class or sitting criss-cross applesauce on the carpet). It wasn't an overnight transformation, but by giving him positive attention (even on the days when it was difficult to find the good behaviors), there was a noticeable transformation in his behaviors in school. He and I had to come up with several other behavioral modification techniques during the course of my two years with him, but it all started with simple kind words of praise for his positive behaviors. I found that positive reinforcement was much more effective than any kind of punishment with helping him to follow the rules.

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Re: Assignment #2	Jennifer Williams (nostalgic :-))	14:55:32 06/15/10 Tue
Re: Assignment #2 -- Jennifer de Wit, 20:49:09 06/15/10 Tue