Behaviorism In The Classroom Analysis

Like many children, I learned to read and write around the age of five at both home and school. I learned to read by reading Dick and Jane. The writing was simple, but I loved the stories. That was always my favorite part

In this paper I talk about my experience and how it turned out to be fascinating. I mention how my visit to O’Brien allowed for me to gather up enough information to compare and contrast the teachers I got to meet. The two teachers I compare and contrast are Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Raber. I talk about their similarities, one of them being how both their teaching styles are teacher-centered and another similarity being that both teachers share the same theories. I explain how both Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Raber use behaviorism in their classrooms. After talking about their similarities I talk about their differences. The differences I mention is how Mrs. Raber uses humanism in her classroom by allowing her students to choose what game they’d love to play

Charles le Chien; a bleu gentleman poodle who prefers a negotiation over any conflict. Born in Paris, France, Charley was trained and eventually brought into Steinbeck’s life. These companions later travel around America while trying to answer the question “What are Americans like today?” With only his necessities and Charley, Steinbeck began his long, overwhelming journey across America. In Travels with Charley, Steinbeck is greatly influenced by Charley and his actions.

Challenging inappropriate behaviour posed by children nowadays is one of the most daunting issued faced by teachers. Few matters affect teachers more directly and persistently than managing classroom behaviour (Jim Docking, 2000). Being able to manage a classroom I found is one of the most fundamental aspects in being able to teach today. Through this critique I will investigate the different studies relating to behaviour management within a classroom, looking pacifically at several behavioural issues within a classroom and where they stem from, as well as looking into studies based on the praise system and how it is used in schools. I want to look at fundamental theorists and give a brief insight into their studies through my own experience and research I have looked into.

As a baby, and later as a toddler, my parents made a point to begin my education in literacy, my mother especially. She made a point to read to me nearly every day, and we frequented the library. As a toddler I loved to listen to books written or illustrated by Eric Carle, like Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. After I grew tired of these, we moved on to books such as Goodnight Moon and The Giving Tree. Throughout this whole time period, my parents, and to some extent Sesame Street, taught me letters, and I learned to read, mostly through exposure. When I first began reading on my own, my parents could not tell whether or not I was reading or had merely memorized the words to my favorite books. In the end, my reading

Chapters 1 and 2 of Managing Classroom Behavior Using Positive Behavior Supports, deals with the basics of behavior. Google defined behavior as the way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially toward others.

I am from Alabama, so I learned to read with the Sally, Dick, and Jane reading books. Oh of course, I can’t forget about Spot the dog. I think back then the teachers did a lot to get us reading. I have been reading about all of the new ways to teach kids phonics awareness, but when I was a child, the teachers taught phonics just like they do now. We all learned our letter sounds associations then we started to put sounds together to make words then we did the word lists and spelling words etc. We broke words down in syllables. We did rhyming, poems, and songs and all kinds of phonics activities just like how reading is taught today. Back then the only difference I notice is that, we did the group lessons where we had to do a lot of repeating which of course everyone today knows as “rote,” but let me tell you “rote” worked pretty well for us.

For hundreds of years there has been a fascination on how humans behave and how humans learn. This has been observed and studied by psychologists, educators, and scientists by means of humans and animals and how they perform in different environments. This fascination is known as behaviorism. This aspect of behaviorism deals with how a humans or animals respond to a certain stimuli and how a new behavior is then developed. This paper will address the philosophy of behaviorism, the great contributors to behaviorism and their aspects of behavioral learning such as classical conditioning and operant conditioning.

I learned to read before I started Kindergarten, by using a Teach-Me-Reader and listening to my mother reading to me from infancy. The Teach-Me-Reader was a toy produced in the late 1980’s by Playskool and it was developed in collaboration between Playskool and reading specialists. It was described on the box as being “ the first electronic teacher with a voice that ‘reads out’ each work your child touches on the page.” I loved it and I can remember spending hours reading the stories over and over before I started school.

John Locke argued that people start out with a blank slate. I don’t totally agree that we start as blank slates, but I appreciate the meaning behind Locke’s observation: we are extremely impressionable creatures, but we have the control to be great. Through the human development, people develop their own history of learning experiences that shape who they are and how they react. There are certain laws or rules of learning that happen through how people interact with the environment and how they think, feel and behave. In order for the person and the situation and environment to coexist, we must look at the idea of introspection and the theory of behaviorism. Behavioral methods are not only useful to observe development and how it happens, but also to understand how and why behavioral abnormalities such as phobias happen. I will flesh out behaviorism and share some personal experiences.

Behavioural views of learning involves three separate steps which is applied within behaviour analysis of individuals. The first step is to be able to clearly identify the behaviour in present in order to be able to change and note the current level. The second involves in planning through using precise intervention by consuming antecedents, consequences or either both at the same time. The last step evolves to keep track of the results and adapt the plan (Woolfolk & Margetts, 2013).

People are quick to make judgements about others without knowing what that person has been through. Regardless of how a person acts, he will be judged either in a positive or negative way. Behavior is something that characterizes us as humans. I believe that as humans we have the capability to change our behavior. I support the theories made by behaviorists. Nobody is born knowing, we all have to experience in order to learn. In other words, we have to go through the process of trial and error in order to understand the consequences of our actions. Consequences are not always bad; sometimes there are positive outcomes to a consequence. The word “consequence” simply implies that there will be a result or an outcome from your actions. People’s

I was taught how to read by first identifying letters of the alphabet. My kindergarten teacher had painted large wooden letters and hung them in our class. She would ask me to recall what each letter was. At home, my parents had reading charts all over the wall, which I used for practise daily. Then the kindergarten teacher incorporated things like phonic songs, sounds, rhymes, and games. All enhanced my ability to read. Nonetheless, the best strategy that enabled me to read well was the use of phonic songs like /th/’ /ch/’ and /sh/. These enabled me to decode and spell words. It made learning so much fun and easy.

Behaviorism has been credited with providing clear predictions that can be scientifically tested and yield explanations that can be supported by evidence. For instance, in the application of Applied Behavioral Analysis in improving clients’ behaviors, the functions of individuals problematic behaviors can be evaluated and modified using behavior change principles including reinforcement. Similarly, behaviorism emphasizes the objective measurement of behaviors through providing clear and conceptual definitions, and its therapy is applicable to real life situations as in the case of anxiety. Conversely, studies incorporated into behaviorism allow for appropriate comparisons between animals and humans as in the Case of Watson’s, Thorndike’s and Pavlov’s studies respectively.

My psychologist has produced a very accurate analysis of myself. It captured the thing that drives a great deal of my behavior. It influences my actions subconsciously and helps get me be the terrific person that I am today. My assessment shows how generous I am. I give freely of my time and my possessions, and no jobs are too big for me to help with sharing comes naturally for me. My assessment also shows my behavior reveals that I’m a loving individual. I always want the best for people and depart out of my way to do little special things for them by nature I am a giver. I choose behaviorism theory because I’m more intimate with this theory, it’s the most theory that I will have to deal with more when I began the job that I am