Behaviorism in Practice

I think that all instructional strategies have some sort of behaviorism worked into them. There are so many resources that help teachers to facilitate how students are learning and most of those include classroom management. Through this weeks readings, I see a strong correlation. In chapter 8, it starts off by saying "People attribute success to different sources: to their own innate abilities, to the assistance of others, to luck, and to effort." Behaviorism falls into the part of assistance of others because behaviorism can be used as reinforcement. In general people will find the want or need to do something if they see a positive outcome at the end. It is the same with students, they will comply with their teacher if they know what they are getting in the end. There are so many ways to look at behaviorism in the classroom, but the most obvious in my classroom is reinforcement, whether it's by using rewards, or just saying something that I noticed. Either way, a lot of my instruction has opportunity for reinforcement, therefore including behaviorism.