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

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Subject: Re: Assignment #2

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Alicia Scott

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Date Posted: 20:36:23 06/14/10 Mon
In reply to: Christopher Todd 's message, "Re: Assignment #2" on 16:59:30 06/14/10 Mon

>For the past two Summers I have worked as director of
>a summer camp in Mid-town Memphis. During the two
>months the camp is in session there are many
>opportunities to practice behavioral modification.
>One such example of this took place last summer.
>There was a child in camp that would misbehave every
>day of the week, multiple times per day. We would
>attempt to put the child in "time-out" talk with him
>about his behavior, and call his mother. Non of our
>attempts resulted in the desired outcome. Finally we
>decided that every time he misbehaved we would require
>that he right on the board-what he did wrong. He
>would write multiple times-and each time he misbehaved
>the number of sentences he would write would increase,
>beginning with ten and then increasing by ten at each
>infraction during the week. The child hated this form
>of correction and would cry at each instance, but
>after a few days of these corrective measures the
>childs behavior improved to the desireable level

I remember having to do this as a child in elementary school but they were called "write-offs". You are right. Most kids HATE them. They were especially terrible when the whole class had to stay in at recess and do them when the class got in trouble as a whole (I guess I had mean teachers in elementary school!) This method is quite successful in my opinion as I don't remember having to do them that often. But boy, when I did.....ugh!

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