The Chapter Begins with an Analogy of How Your Classroom

question 13

Essay

The chapter begins with an analogy of how your classroom is, in many ways, like a gym or health club. Summarize the key points you have read in the chapter by describing the ways in which the instructional strategies/interventions you use with your students are analogous to the people described in the opening gym scenario. ​

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Definitions:

Overt Behaviour

Observable actions or responses of an individual, visible and measurable by others.

Sigmund Freud

An Austrian neurologist and the founding father of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Behaviour Modification

A therapy approach that seeks to change undesirable behaviors through the use of reinforcement and punishment.

Self-reward

A process of giving oneself a reward to reinforce and encourage positive behavior or the completion of tasks.