Comments on: Show and Tell: Day 7 /2007/show-and-tell-day-7/ less helpful Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:40:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: dan /2007/show-and-tell-day-7/#comment-20491 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:29:40 +0000 /?p=379#comment-20491 Well at least Chris has given me a lot of heavy vocab to lob across the big wooden table. I’m not sure how much I buy it, though, or how much it should be bought.

The case for Skinnerian conditioning doesn’t look so horrible when we’re talking about ninety second videos, but what if I was offering a day off to any kid who got in her seat in a timely manner or let the class out ten minutes early if they got to work inside of ten minutes. Skinner would be proud but admin would be frothing.

My point is that I’m not playing inside the instructional standards here – where I’ve been paid to be every minute of every day – and it makes me nervous, that’s all.

If called on it, and I’ve got reason to believe with our new administration I will be, I’ll flashbang ’em with Skinner psychology but underline it repeatedly by “no referrals no referrals no referrals.”

]]> By: jeffreygene /2007/show-and-tell-day-7/#comment-20488 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:52:49 +0000 /?p=379#comment-20488 anal note from some guy who grew up ten minutes from where that prank happened…D for Darby…

]]> By: Scott Elias /2007/show-and-tell-day-7/#comment-20481 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:21:42 +0000 /?p=379#comment-20481 I can only speak for myself, Dan and Chris, but as an administrator I’m looking closely at student data with attendance and discipline are two big indicators. If I see few absences and few referrals, it’s an indication that the teacher is doing something right.

I guess what I’m trying to say is worry less about justifying to the Powers That Be. Your work speaks for itself. The data don’t lie.

]]> By: Chris Craft /2007/show-and-tell-day-7/#comment-20448 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:53:36 +0000 /?p=379#comment-20448 I’ll save being long winded at the moment, but I would say you could easily make a case for your video use based on operant conditioning. You are immediately reinforcing behavior that you desire which then serves to support the behavior prior to the film clip. I do a similar thing except towards the beginning of class to reinforce them being there and ready and then move into other reinforcements after a lesson. This is a lengthy discussion but I’d be willing to say you could easily make a solid Skinner-based operant conditioning case here if you ever had to justify it to admins.

Chris

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