Positive Reinforcement: One Guidance Strategies

One guidance strategy I find interesting is positive reinforcement. This basic strategy occurs in everyone’s daily life – from infants to elderly people. It is a reward or positive response to behaviors one exhibits. It also “provides information about accepted behavior and, if used in a classroom, it supports students while he or she is trying it out, making mistakes, and trying again. Positive reinforcement can be verbal or physical, social or tangible; such as giving an encouraging word, a pat on the back, a free homework pass, a sticker or a smile” (Kaiser & Sklar Rasminsky, 2012, page 182). When the student feels that their behavior is accepted by their teacher, and the teacher responds in a positive way, the student cares about learning,