SPED 3000 Chapter 6 Week 8

This chapter offered me a lot on insight into the behavior of children that I have been around in classrooms. Each time I have been in classrooms grade 3 and up, I have witnessed a wide variety of consistent inappropriate behaviors. More often than not the behavior was followed by a negative reinforcement from the teacher. I have always thought that positive reinforcement is the best behavior modification strategy, for the home and for school before leading into punishment. I have witnessed teacher punishing the students before attempting another possibility. The most important way to maintain and discourage misbehavior in the classroom is to establish classroom rules and procedures at the beginning of the year. If the students begin the year with set goals and expectations in the classroom they are more likely to choose more appropriate behaviors during the day. I thought the contingency contracts for older students discussed is a great idea. I have never heard of this, but I think it would be worth a try to see how it works with students. Each student will be different though and what may work for the almost all of the class, may not work for one or two students. These students could have different positive behavior reinforcements included in their management strategies.