BRAINSAREFUN FEARLESS FRIDAY BLOG – Bright Futures With Reading, Math and Study-Skills – Friday May 30, 2014

CRYING OUT FOR SUCCESS

I had to find skills that were self-rewarding. The very act of "learning" had to be experienced as "success." 

I had some excellent teachers and learned that "teaching" works. I learned:

• Positive reinforcement is any reward that increases the behavior you want;
• Negative reinforcement is any reward that decreases the behavior you don't want.

So challenging is this awkward and contrarian truth, that I had to write down my answers. It's hard as you shall see as you do it:

• Three behaviors I wanted to increase (in myself and/or others):
  1. ​​A
  2. B
  3. C

• Three behaviors I wanted to decrease (in myself and/or others):
  1. ​​A
  2. B
  3. C

Additional tools: Positive Discipline and Rewards and Punishments

Thanks for all you do to save academic lives,