REINFORCEMENT SKILL(Reinforcement, what is reinforcement? why reinforce in teaching learning process?)

Reinforcement, what is reinforcement? why reinforce in teaching learning process?Microteaching

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The term reinforcement refers to the events or stimulus that increases the possibility of response. The reinforcement has a great impact in the teaching learning process, its a kind of reward that a teacher give to his/her student for a particular type of event or response during the class teaching. This is an art or skill we can say for a teacher that how he/she use the reinforcement during the course of his/her teaching. This teaching skill can be very effective to control and to teach a class if the students are little bit careless. We must remember one thing that we all are rewarded for what we do in our daily routine , and we also expect that reward get similarly it is equally important for teaching learning process Reinforcement will increase or strengthen the response.

 For example: when we praise a child for helping clean up the toys, they're likely to continue helping clean up in the future, further if we want more from the child we can ask him to do so in return to some reward, he/she will show the response in repeated manner. When we offer a treat to a dog during training, they're likely to repeat the behavior we're teaching them in the future. In an active classroom teacher treats students as per their responses, if they shows good response then teacher will reward them and if the students shows the undesired response then the teacher will remove that response with the appropriate reinforcement. 

Reinforcement doesn’t mean that teacher should give the reward for a good response and for a bad one he/she should beat them but it is all about to increase the correct and desirable responses in students, if the student is not giving the proper response then the teacher should know his/her problem instead of scolding him of beating him. Once the teacher is able to know the problem of the student then he/she can treat the child properly. So this is all about how a teacher designs the responses of a child by the help of reinforcement. It’s been discussed in most of the psychological theories the reinforcement increases the responses. So the stimulus or events which increases the response of the students known as reinforcement. 

For a teacher it is very obvious that he/she gives the reinforcement for each and every response of child when needed which in turn increase the rate of responses. In the 1920s Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov may have been the first to use the word reinforcement with respect to behavior, but (according to Dinsmoor) he used its approximate Russian cognate sparingly, and even then it referred to strengthening an already-learned but weakening response. Later on the father of operant conditioning B.F Skinner introduced the term reinforcement to the law of effect. The principle is that for every pleasant consequences the behavior is likely to be repeated.

Why reinforcement?

1. To increase participation of students.
2. To motivate students.
3. To improve the behaviour of kids.
4. To increase the positive responses. 

How it is differ from Feedback?

However some people treat both reinforcement and feedback equally during teaching but there is slight difference between them. These both terms are so important for a teacher with the help of them a teacher try to understand the learning rate in students. The difference between them can be understand with the help of following points-

Reinforcement increases the possibility of responses while the feedback changes the behaviour of the kids.

Reinforcement is psychological concept while feedback is originated from physical sciences and machines.

Reinforcement improves the learning process and make it effective while feedback develops and improves the behaviour.

What are the components of reinforcement skill?

Components

1. The use of agreeable statements
2. The appreciation of student's suggestion
3. Encouragement of students 
4. The use of proper gestures and non- verbal symbols
5. To write student's answer on board 
6. The use of negative verbal statements
7. The use of negative non-verbal statements
8. Proper use of reinforcement
9. Reinforcement for all
10. Newness in statements used  in reinforcement

Reinforcement in teaching, why it is important?

All those stimulus, statements and events used or presented which increase the possibility of student's responses. For example to praise a child, saying good , very good, bravo, etc develops a good feeling in student so that the child will participate more and more in class activity, in such case praising the child is a stimulus which increasing child's responses. The proper reinforcement motivates the students and develops good habits in them, makes teaching effective, enjoyable and stress free too. The environment that teacher creates while teaching is very important and reinforcement makes it so effective for students.

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