Behaviour Modification

[Niko]

Teaching students to become respected members of society

Instilling good morals and raising children to be respectable members of society is not just the responsibility of parents. A primary school teacher will spend more time with a child than their parents will throughout the school year.

Teachers are seen as a role model, not only by children but adult students too. Being in this role model position, we need to consider our actions carefully, and use this position to instill good morals amongst students.

Key responsibilities of teachers in the classroom are:

• Consistently compliment student's for desirable behaviours. Compliment for correct responses and achievement.
• Provide emphatic direction / behaviour modification for student empowerment behaviour.
• Provide negative reinforcement for undesirable behaviours.

Encouragement and complimenting students, develops a desire to succeed and excel in life. Nightingale likened a person without a goal to a ship without a destination or a crew. Neither has a chance of arriving.

Remember your role as an English teacher is not just teaching English, but also instilling the correct values and morals into your students.

[Tutor]

It is always believed that "School is the second home for any children" and hence the teachers have the same responsibility as the parents.

The social and moral responsibilities are to be taught to the students which are over and above the normal studies.