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While reflecting on my childhood, I realized that rewards and punishments were continuously used to shape my behaviour. Generally, my parents and my teachers used the strategies
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While reflecting on my childhood, I realized that rewards and punishments were continuously used to shape my behaviour. Generally, my parents and my teachers used the strategies above, since they had the responsibility to educate me. In the following paragraphs, I will focus more on the application of rewards and punishments in the classroom. It is my opinion that rewards and punishments are two of the most popular teaching strategies, since they help the teacher successfully reaches his or her instructional and behavioural objectives. I believe that rewards and punishments can be a very powerful teaching tool if applied cautiously and at the right moment. Obviously, different teachers have different views in regards to the application of these strategies in the classroom. The operant conditioning model can help teachers understand why rewards and punishments are so effective and how to use these strategies in order to bring about learning. In the...
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