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Date Posted: 13:18:56 02/01/07 Thu
Author: Cassandra Schuyler
Subject: Re: Punishment
In reply to: Brad Kovach 's message, "Punishment" on 00:38:45 01/31/07 Wed

I believe in the power of reinforcement as well. It is very positive and builds willpower in adolescence, when they are given a positive goal to work towards. At many times it is hard to remember this though, and you feel like you should give a punishment or take something away from those misbehaving. It is very hard not to think this way. But when you forget and give out "punishments" and negative reinforcement, the children who are on track and doing the "right thing" do not get recognized and begin to feel ignored, while those students you are concentrating on continue to act that way because they are getting what they want, your attention. Also, when you give assignments such as writing, reading, and extra homework as punishments this just deters the students from doing these things on thier own time. Forcing a student to write or read gives them a negative attatchment to that concept and they become less likely to want to do those things, since they associate it with punishment.

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