The most effective way to teach a person or animal a new behavior is with positive reinforcement. In positive reinforcement, a desirable stimulus is added to increase a behavior. For example, you tell your five-year-old son, Jerome, that if he cleans his room, he will get a toy.

Avoiding Tantrums A child throws a tantrum because he/she didn’t get the candy bar. So, his/her father gets him one. He/She then stops the tantrum i.e. something unpleasant is avoided, and his/her father’s behavior of getting candy will increase.

The process goes like this:

1. State Goal (tell her what you want to have happen and why)
2. Monitor Behavior (pay attention to what she actually does)
3. Reinforce Desired Behavior (reward her for good behavior)
4. Reduce Incentives for Undesired Behavior (remove rewards for bad behavior)

Punishment has five recognized purposes: deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, retribution, and restitution.

Type 2 punishment: is removal of a positive event after a behavior. Technically punishment is a decrease in the rate of a behavior. For example: If a child was spanked for running onto the road and stops running on to the road, then the spanking was punishment.

It begins by considering the four most common theories of punishment: retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation.

positive punishment, punishment by application, or type I punishment, an experimenter punishes a response by presenting an aversive stimulus into the animal’s surroundings (a brief electric shock, for example).

Answering the Phone in School The teacher takes away his phone for the rest of the day. Here, the teacher is hoping that by taking away the phone (positive item) as punishment, the teenager will not answer his phone in class again. This is because they do not want the repeat punishment of losing their phone.

Natural Consequences: Natural consequences are the best form of positive punishment because they teach your children about life. Natural consequences do not require any action from the parent. Instead, these are consequences that occur naturally as the result of the bad behavior.

The six forms of punishment are capital punishment, imprisonment, probation, restitution, fine, and community service.

Apply positive discipline in your classroom.

1. Keep in mind positive discipline can fail is the student or the class is not rewarded quickly enough and clearly enough.
2. Always emphasize the task, rather than the behavior.
3. Don’t take behavior outbursts personally.

10 Ways to Improve Discipline in School

1. 10 Discipline Improving Techniques:
2. Keep Everything Organized:
3. Manage Problems Early:
4. Control Things Rightly:
5. Teach Children the Right procedures:
6. Ensure That the Students are Busy:
7. Develop a Good Relationship with Students:
8. Walk Around the Class:

10 Ways to Build Relationships With Students Who Challenge You

1. Greet them by name every single day.
2. Ask them something about their interests, after school activities, or family, and then LISTEN.
3. Have lunch with them!
4. Play a game with them!

5 Effective Tips for Working with Stubborn Students

1. Tap into their interests and include student choice.
2. Lower the originality hurdle.
3. Pull out your experimental and no-fail lessons.
4. Use technology as a hook.
5. Give it time, be patient, and practice empathy.