Behavorism

1. Assertive Discipline

1.1. Pro: teacher can have a more productive classroom with less interruptions. Con: teacher decides what is best for students, very little student choice. -sydney

1.2. Con: Students have very little control over what actually happens in the classroom with their learning because the teacher has the right to determine what is best for them and their learning. There is very little student choice involved in the learning process with assertive discipline. - Ginny

1.3. Pro: Students have a clear expectation of what is expected of them and know that there are consequences when these expectations are not met. -Brooklyn Trimble

1.4. Example- During my practicum for this class, my CT used an assertive tone when talking to her students. Instead of shouting a long list of demands to students, her directions were clear and firm. Such as, "everyone needs to get their iPads and be working on Epic within the next 5 minutes." She also keeps children in check by simply asking "what are we supposed to be doing? Is that what you are doing? How can we fix that?" It is not disrupting the rest of class, it is simply having the student self check while using assertive discipline. -Kinley Hambrick

1.5. Con: sometimes the student knows best when it comes to learning. The teacher should involve the student more, instead of just determining for them- Phelan

2. Operant Conditioning

2.1. Students receive the positive reinforcement through good behaviors. This can encourage them to continue to act appropriately, but in my field experience there has been a student who reacts more to the negative reinforcements. I am not sure why, but the rest of the class responds well to positive reinforcement. (Kaitlyn Barbee)

2.2. Con: Students will expect rewards for doing good things. They will do those things for the sake of getting a reward and not for the sake of being good. -Logan Shifflett

2.3. Pro: Students have clear consequences for their behavior. They know they expectations and the consequences that will follow their behavior. When students know this, they will tailor their behavior according to the expectations that have been laid out. These responses can often be predicted based on the consequences. -Ginny

2.4. Con-Students that receive an award for good behavior in place of bad behavior, may return to bad behavior once the reward is no longer present.-Kinley Hambrick

2.5. Pro- Helps get rid of negative unwanted behavior of students. Con: students can start the unwanted behaviors again as soon as they do not get the reward they want. -sydney

2.6. Con: Using tangible items as positive reinforcement in the classroom can be counterproductive. This approach may work in the moment, but eventually your students will start to anticipate those rewards. In child development we learned that giving students food as a reward can increase their chances for developing eating disorders, because students feel like they have to eat whenever they do something good. Eventually this becomes having to eat something just to get through the day. -Brooklynn Mitchell

2.7. Con: While this may work in the beginning, students may start expecting a reward every time a rule is followed or they show good behavior - which should just be expected of them without the reward. - Brooklyn Trimble

2.8. pro: could give students motivation to complete tasks that they previously had no motivation for, encouraging them to get better grades, work harder and have a better overall experience at school - katie hardy

2.9. Pro: with operant conditioning, practicing positive reinforcement can lead to better outcomes with students. As a teacher you must be teaching the students how they learn best and reinforcing in a positive way- Phelan

2.10. Con: My CT does this and the students will misbehave more if she doesn't give them candy after every time they do good in their guided reading groups. They also don't always work as hard because they just expect to get candy anyways. -Kaitlyn Painter

3. Keep going with your responses, I have a way of looking at the history. Idk what happened.