Module 3

Ch. 7—behavioral views of learning. Ch. 13 managing learning environments 

Chapter 7 talks about behavioral views of learning, it talks about classical conditioning and operant conditioning. It also covers reinforcing aspect as well as the punish and reward strategy. Group consequences is always a great idea. My children love the classroom gotchas (they are basically ticketing they receive when they show good behavior.) They have individual gotchas, they collect as much as they can until the end of the week. The tickets they collected gets put in a lottery and they get to win a prize from the treasure box. This chapter reminded me of the effect of group consequences, such as having to accumulate a number of tickets as a group to win a pizza party or a pajama party. This strategy helps students maintain a good behavior as well as learn how to be good team players.

Chapter 13 starts with goals for classroom management; access to learning. Classroom set up is very significant. It helps students have more learning time and less disrupting. Having desks bunched together could be beneficial for group work, however, could be a challenge for classroom management.  Chapter 13 talks about how important it is to maintain a good learning environment. Prevention is always a great thing, by being able to be aware of what it is going on in class. When a problem occurs, stopping the problem immediately and giving a choice is what should be the first thing to go to as a teacher. 

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  1. Ally WhowellJuly 5, 2019 at 1:00 PM

    Hey Wafa!

    I love when children recieve gotchas, we call them dojos at my school, it is amazing how fast they remember what they are supposed to be doing when you start handing points out. I think that is a good way to utilize their sense of group collectivism and work toward good consequences. Thank you for your posts this week! Great summarizes!

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  2. Cindy WagnerJuly 7, 2019 at 2:29 PM

    The elementary school my sons attended had "caught being good" tickets which was a school wide program. Students that were "caught being good" received a ticket where they wrote their name, class code & character trait they demonstrated on the back of the ticket and put in the corresponding character box. At the end of each month, the principal would pull a ticket from each character trait box. The results were announced the next day and the students came down to the principal's office to receive their ribbon and get their picture taken for the character trait bulletin board outside the office. Kids got super excited when they received one of these tickets! Both my boys received these types of tickets during the course of their elementary school years but only my oldest's name was ever pulled for the bulletin board. My youngest would be sad but he told me when he was older that it was "okay since he was caught being good and also helped his class tally." That brings me to the individual classrooms that had an incentive where cubes or poms or cotton balls were deposited and removed from a class jar depending on the situation or event. I know items were removed if the class couldn't be quiet and orderly in the hall on their way to music, gym or art class. If the class did well for example at an assembly, they could earn the deposits into the jar. Once the jar was filled, as outlined by the teacher at the beginning of the year, the class voted on their "reward" such as an extra recess, additional free reading time, pajama day or stuffed animal day. Again students were excited for these rewards too. My boys both loved when they could bring their favorite stuffed animal and a small blanket to school for reading time + bonus time. I see how these incentives work within the school and have observed in the classroom how the different grade level teachers implement them. The classroom wins and losses were implemented as a whole and not for specific individuals. This helped motivate students to encourage others to pay attention or follow the necessary rules or help someone without being asked by the teacher. I have seen these work but it needs to not be at the expense of an individual student where they are put on stage and have the potential to face ridicule or teasing.

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