Positive Reinforcement
Positive reinforcement assignment
Felver Stokes
Mr. Eddie Tate
EC 400 01
March 13, 2022
Positive reinforcement assignment
Use positive reinforcement to encourage the child's behaviors that you want that child to repeat. When your child is learning a new behavior or working on a specific skill, it's important to offer positive reinforcement randomly, and their behavior is unlikely to change. If you want to ensure kids to the behavior, you must use positive reinforcement for their excellent work are motivated to keep working hard. So, it's essential never to reward negative actions and always focus on positive behavior. When offering positive reinforcement, examples you can use are clapping and cheering, giving a high five, giving a hug or pat on the back, giving a thumbs-up, and offering a particular activity, like playing a game or reading a book together.
One day in my class, I used positive reinforcement in my whole group reading block period. I would start by using a read-aloud YouTube video while the class read along with the book. I played the video twice, and they read along from the book. Then I pick a child to start with our reading with one of the reading strategies we use in the lesson. The strategy is to read the question first. Then read all the answers choices. Pick the two answer that feels that is wrong and eliminate them. Next, go back to the story to find the correct answer and read the sentence you think matches the right answer. Then choose the best solution that selects from the sentence you read from the story. I picked my first boy; he read the question and gave me the answer, and the response was correct; I told him good job, and I called on another child. I picked the next student, another boy; he read the question and all the answers and gave me the correct answer. I told him he did a good job. Next, I called one of my star's students, a girl, and she read the question and the answer choices. She told me the two answers that she felt that was not correct and eliminated them. She when back in the story and read the sentence that she found the correct
answer and told me her correct answer and I gave her a piece two tickets. I called on the fourth student, and she read the question and the answer, and I told her the answer was correct and told her good job, and she said Mrs. Stokes, I did not get a ticket. I called on the next student, who was a boy; he read the question and the answer choices, and she went back in the story and found a sentence that she thought was the correct answer and gave me the right answer; she read the explanation and did it match the answer choice, and I ask her whether she thinks the answer she said matches one of the choices and then she picks the correct answer, and I gave her two tickets. One of my students said Mrs. Stokes, that girl did not get the answer right, and you gave her two tickets. I told him; you take the next question. He read the question and the answer and gave me the correct answer. I told him good job and called the last boy. The last boy read the question and the answer choices, and he eliminated the two solutions that he felt were incorrect. He went into the story, found the correct sentence that matched the right answer, read it, and gave me the correct answer. I gave him two tickets. I asked all the students I gave tickets to place them back in the tickets box and get a piece of candy off my disk.
The positive reinforcement that I used in my whole group reading block period today was to be rewarded only by using the reading strategies I taught them to find their answer when they are using multiple choice questions and how to choices the correct answer. Using positive reinforcement can also be an effective way to encourage and motivate your child to be responsible, do their chores, get along with their siblings, or complete their homework assignments without arguing. When your child misbehaves or does not follow directions, rewards might be the last thing on your mind. There are many ways to offer positive reinforcement by giving a child extra privilege, but I choose in my whole group to use tangible rewards.