Importance Of Punishment And Punishment In School

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Introduction
The teachers and the parents jointly share the responsibility of building the character traits of children to make them good human beings. However, teacher’s role is predominant in developing the right type of behavior and personality traits. They can make the personality of their students through their actions. Their approach, style and psyche will have lasting impact on the growth of their students. The punishment and rewards are common practices around the developing countries. The major aim of the descriptive study was to find out the common reward and punishment practices at secondary level in schools as perceived by the teachers and students.
The analysis of the data revealed that most of the teachers use verbal punishment …show more content…

Punishment is most effective when it is presented immediately after a response, it cannot be escaped, it is intense as necessary and an alternative and desirable response is available to the student. It is a weapon that can be a risky for the teachers as it is distasteful to the student. (Gage & David , 1992). Furthermore, the frequent use of punishment is a symptom of something wrong in teacher’s approaches and methods in the school situation. It is a challenge for teacher to discover and correct the problem and to reduce the need of punishment.
In contrast, Skinner (1953) noted that the use of punishment in school can lead to undesirable side effect such anxiety, anger and negative feelings towards the teacher. The negative feeling may generalize towards the teacher and subsequently surface during other activities. Also Atkins (2002) found results in their study that showed that for students whose rates of disruptive behavior increased over the school year, using detentions and suspensions actually proved to be an inappropriate and ineffective use of punishment. This confirmed the idea that punishment alone is not effective in ameliorating the most severe offenses and does little to reeducate those who most frequently display problem behaviors. Although punishing practices may actually increase the severity of the very problem behaviors that they are trying to reduce. In addition children need to be taught how to act and the appropriate way to act, rather than simply confirming and pointing out that they are behaving badly and punishing them for doing so (Kohn,

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