| Re: Sending the Right Signals |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: ZerkonXZerkonX Date: Sep 20, 2008 04:23
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:41:10 -0700, Joseph William Stasaitis wrote:
> This is
> the process of converting something into its opposite. In other words,
> getting the opposite of what you want. In our interactions with
> children this is something to guard against.
Years ago I was working around a Head Start program. The teacher, the
very young teacher, developed a behavior management strategy of taking a
disruptive child over to the snack area and giving them juice to quiet
them down...!!
So she was, in fact, rewarding the disruption even though it did quiet
the child down usually. The overall result was an increase in disruptive
behavior in the entire class until this error was pointed out to her.
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