Operant Conditioning Should Be Taught In School

Ask a few different students how they learn and would like to be taught they may end up giving you different answers. Ask a few teachers what they believe is the best way to teach students and they will all have their own way and techniques they believe are the best. Ask a parent how they think students should be taught and they will probably tell you another different answer. Teaching is not a definite thing. Research on the topic of teaching is continuously being performed and yielding results, new and old. So the way one person may think is the best way to teach may not be the same as another and that is okay. Learning psychology went over a few different techniques of how a person learns new information. One that stuck with me the most is Operant conditioning. Operant conditioning uses positive and negative reinforcement and punishment. From what I have seen and experienced growing up the use of reinforcement is very helpful in teaching someone. The use of the reinforcement will get a student to want to do the work that needs to be performed for the reinforcement. For example, when teaching a student basic multiplication skills you can give the student a page of math problems to do. After having completed the page in a certain amount of time and the answers all being correct they can get a reward.
From experience I believe
I mentioned previously that I believe cleaning should be taught in school. One way students can be taught to clean is by having them do the cleaning the janitors would normally do. Giving the students the opportunity to figure out what they believe a good way to clean something is one way to start. After they have decided what they think is the best way you can either correct them or give them the chance to try with their idea. They can be graded on how well they cleaned whatever they were responsible for that