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  • Essay / Child Development Essay - 3278

    374). However, as a teacher, you must take charge of your behavior and control it. To do this, you have classroom management and ways to encourage desired behaviors. Constantly removing privileges and punishments can cause students to feel bullied and victimized (Sadker & Zittleman, 2009, p. 374). In my classroom, to get the behaviors I want from my students, I will try to provide as much positive reinforcement as possible. For example, I would like my students to raise their hands when they have something to say during class, without shouting. I would do this by calling on my students to raise their hands and giving them some sort of positive consequence, like candy, for not calling. When my students scream and forget to raise their hands, they simply won't get the candy and will most likely be ignored. This would be the practice of extinction (Snowman, McCown and Biehler, 2012,