B.F. Skinner developed the theory of operant conditioning which holds that behaviors are shaped through reinforcement. He found that mice would press a lever if it resulted in a food pellet reward. Skinner also conditioned pigeons' behaviors using rewards. Operant conditioning uses positive reinforcement to encourage desired behaviors in students. Teachers can reward behaviors like attention, homework completion, and correct quiz answers to shape student learning. Both with and without technology, operant conditioning positively reinforces students and builds their confidence.
Free, Cheap, & Easy! Technology Tools For Your Classroom
Today, technology tools for education abound! I’ll share what works for me in my classes. ClassDojo, Voki, Storybird, Padlet – just to name a few. What do they do? How can we use them in class? What secret jewels do you have to share with the group?
Slides from 2011 Preparing Your Child for Success seminar hosted by The Bear Creek School annually in Redmond, WA. Slides are excerpts from the presentation "Raising Responsible Children Using the Love and Logic Approach" by Karen Wright, Ph.D. Lower School Division Head at The Bear Creek School.
How to deal with indiscipline in the classroom ? IT HAPPENS TO EVERY TEACHER AT SOME POINT.
Sometimes it is with the first class. Other times a teacher gets a few good years under his or her belt before it hits. Sometimes it seems like it happens in class after class. The problem that all too often rears its ugly head is lack of discipline. Every teacher experiences it, and no teacher likes it. The good news is that there are ways to handle indiscipline in the classroom. Here are some tips to try with your students.
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Free, Cheap, & Easy! Technology Tools For Your Classroom
Today, technology tools for education abound! I’ll share what works for me in my classes. ClassDojo, Voki, Storybird, Padlet – just to name a few. What do they do? How can we use them in class? What secret jewels do you have to share with the group?
Slides from 2011 Preparing Your Child for Success seminar hosted by The Bear Creek School annually in Redmond, WA. Slides are excerpts from the presentation "Raising Responsible Children Using the Love and Logic Approach" by Karen Wright, Ph.D. Lower School Division Head at The Bear Creek School.
How to deal with indiscipline in the classroom ? IT HAPPENS TO EVERY TEACHER AT SOME POINT.
Sometimes it is with the first class. Other times a teacher gets a few good years under his or her belt before it hits. Sometimes it seems like it happens in class after class. The problem that all too often rears its ugly head is lack of discipline. Every teacher experiences it, and no teacher likes it. The good news is that there are ways to handle indiscipline in the classroom. Here are some tips to try with your students.
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This presentation was for my Honours project proposal. Presented to a chair of lecturers and peers.
It outlines the problem I aimed to tackle and the issues that I had discovered during research.
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PART 1
The term "self fulfilling prophecy" was defined by the American sociologist William Isaac Thomas (1863 - 1947) in the dictum: 'If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.'
Events tend to turn out as one has hypothesized, not because of some great insight but because one behaves in a manner to achieve this outcome. A large body of evidence exists in various areas of psychology supporting the self-fulfilling prophecy.
R. Rosenthal, Experimenter Effects in Behavioral Research (New York, 1976)
Research is showing that one of the major influences on student achievement is teacher expectations.
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The Pygmalion Effect
Definition and Background: What is the Pygmalion Effect?
People tend to live up to what's expected of them and they tend to do better when treated as if they are capable of success. These are the lessons of the Pygmalion Effect. Pygmalion first appeared in Greek mythology as a king of Cyprus who carved and then fell in love with a statue of a woman, which Aphrodite brought to life as Galatea.
Much later, George Bernard Shaw wrote a play, entitled Pygmalion, about Henry Higgins (the gentleman) and Lisa Doolittle (the cockney flower girl whom Henry bets he can turn into a lady).
So the Pygmalion Effect has come to mean "you get what you expect." If you expect disaster, your expectations may well be met in a kind of "self-fulfilling prophecy", yet another catch phrase about the pressure of expectations.
Case Study
In another classic experiment, Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson worked with elementary school children from 18 classrooms. They randomly chose 20% of the children from each room and told the teachers they were "intellectual bloomers." I first learned of this story from Zig Ziglar, a renown motivational speaker and positive thinking proponent.
He goes into detail about how a set of school teachers were told that their students were geniuses. They've been tested by some new methodology of determining the success of school age children, and THESE kids were the best of the best. In addition, these teachers were told that they were uniquely entrusted with these children's welfare for the coming school year. They explained that these children should show remarkable gains during the year.
The children, performed admirably, gaining an average of two IQ points in verbal ability, seven points in reasoning, and four points in overall IQ. At the conclusion of the experiment, the teachers were informed that these students were randomly assigned, much as any others are during any normal school year. And the teachers as well, prior to this year, were nothing special -- they, too, were selected randomly.
The participants in his study were not necessarily aware that they were being monitored and that this was an experiment of any kind.
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A. I found the case study really interesting. It's hard to believe that jus.
Learning new things is a sign of development. It can be study, skills or any habit. There are many reasons that can make child learning fast and easily. Many scientists have discovered different learning theories and taxonomies. There are many reasons that can make learning fast and easily. I will discuss them one by one.
3. B.F. Skinner Born March 20th, 1904 in Pennsylvania While in graduate school, he did an experiment with mice. When the mouse pressed a lever, they would receive a pellet of food. The discovery that an animal or person is rewarded for a behavior, then continues that behavior was named Operant Conditioning by B.F. Skinner.
4. Operant conditioning is a type of behaviorism theory. Positive reinforcement can shape a child’s behavior. Skinner also experimented with pigeons rewarding them when they behaved in a desired manner. He taught them to dance and bowl using an alley he made for them. B.F. Skinner
5. Applying the Theory in the Classroom Without technology, a teacher can reward students who listen well, pay attention, follow directions, and do their homework/classwork on time. This is an example of a behavior chart a teacher could use in the classroom to put stickers on when a child meets the desired behavior. When the child has a certain amount of stickers they could receive a small prize or piece of candy.
6. Using Technology In the classroom a teacher creating a powerpoint quiz can create a “correct” slide and an “incorrect” slide for when the child answers a question correctly or incorrectly. This gives the child positive reinforcement when the student provides the desired behavior (answering the question right). Another way a teacher could use technology is having the child read a book and when they are done reading it, they take a test on the computer. If they pass the test, that gives them “reading points”, which adds up to a prize once the student earns a certain amount.
7. Student Role Without technology a student follows directions, listens, pays attention and are rewarded for this desired behavior. This makes the child want to do more of this behavior and less of the “bad” behavior. With technology, a student taking the powerpoint quiz learns that clicking the right answer results in positive attention, making them want to repeat that action. Also, a student playing software programs reinforce children just like the powerpoint quiz does. It gives the student positive visual and verbal feedback when they give a correct answer allowing the student to understand that behavior is good.
8. My Opinion I think this theory is a great way to manage your class behavior and to create your lesson plans using technology or without technology. Positively reinforcing students is important to me because it builds self-assurance and self-confidence, while showing them what good behavior entails and good study actions. For example, if a student answers a question correctly from the overhead I will positively reinforce them smiling and telling them “Great job!”, “Wonderful!”, etc. This theory is important for all teachers to understand to be successful.