Direct Guidance In Children

Direct guidance refers to affective physical and verbal techniques that teachers use to influence a child’s behavior. Direct guidance is used to prevent problems by anticipating and redirecting a child’s behavior. There are 3 different types of direct guidance you can use with children, they are affective, physical, and verbal. Although, most of the time you won’t have a problem with most children, you’re always going to have at least one child in your classroom who has severe behavioral problems. With these particular children you’ll need to use systematic reinforcement in order to reduce or abolish behaviors that are unwanted. Although you need to use that particular reinforcement to change their behavior, you also need to have an environment