Negative Reinforcement In The Classroom Essay

According to Piazza, “Negative reinforcement plays a significant role in the maintenance of problematic behavior (Iwata, 1987)” (Piazza, 1997). In a study done by Wahab in the article “Managing Learners’ Behaviors in Classroom through Negative Reinforcement Approaches” “it examine discipline management in classroom from the aspect of the types of disruptive behaviors among students in classroom, the practice of teachers’ negative reinforcement approach in managing and tackling these disruptive behaviors in classroom as well as to identify if there is any significant difference of various negative reinforcement approaches practiced by teachers (warning, scolding and punishment) on students that display disruptive behaviors based on the teachers’

He goes on explaining that teachers who have a successful management of their classroom, maintain clear and appropriate rules and boundaries, and that they deal with the antecedents of the students’ behavior problems. Degeling defines antecedents “as things that trigger or lead to specific behavior”. An example he gives is “boredom may be an antecedent to a child getting out of their chair and wondering around the classroom” that punishing the student is not going to deal with the problem. He listed six different practical ways to decrease misbehavior in class. The six ways are 1. Keep them busy, 2. Be amongst them, 3. Keep them engaged, 4. Make sure there are lots of opportunities for students to participate in active ways, 5. Develop relationships, and 6. Structure the class (Degeling, 2012). As regards of positive reinforcement Dedeling quoted “Students are more likely to do things they will be rewarded for than punished for (Grossman, 2004). But unfortunately, teachers often focus more attention on punishing poor behavior, than on rewarding appropriate behavior (Martin et. al., 1999)” (Degeling, 2012). Even though positive reinforcement will probably not be effective in certain situations. That’s why it is important

Just like Ali in the article “Use of Reinforcement Practices in the Educational Institutions and Its Impacts on Student Motivation” had said that motivation has an impact on the students’ behavior Diedrich wanted to see if behavior modifications was an effective method to use by educators. She says that one of the most common problem that is faced by teachers is classroom management because the disruption of a student behavior can affect the time of learning. According to Diedrich teachers struggle with the decision of whether or not a student should be rewarded for expected behavior. And that some educators believe that rewarding expected behaviors is not their job that is the job of the parents. By educators having a strong classroom management can possibly end or avoid the increase of disruptive behavior (Diedrich, 2010). She believes that the use of positive reinforcement and rewards would motivate students to display appropriate social skills. Diedrich paraphrases an article by Chitiyo and Wheeler (2009) saying “educators can teach students appropriate behaviors by establishing classroom routines, modeling the desired behaviors, and building naturally occurring reinforcement aimed at displaying positive behaviors and improving the classroom environment