Sam is a seventh grader who is failing most of his classes. He is often truant f

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Sam is a seventh grader who is failing most of his classes. He is often truant from school and claims that he hates to be in school. In the classroom, Sam engages in a problem behavior in which he picks on some of the other students. He grabs books or papers from their desks and pokes or pinches them during class. The teacher decided on a time-out program for Sam. Whenever he engaged in one of the problem behaviors, the teacher made him sit outside the classroom in the hallway for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, the teacher went out and told him to come back in the classroom. Although the teacher used this time-out procedure for several weeks, the problem behaviors persisted.

What is wrong with this use of time-out?

Describe 2 other procedures would you use instead and discuss why they would be better.

Explanation / Answer

There are two ways to control the behavior of a child according to psychologists the carrots and stick policy i.e. reward and punishment. If the time out is not working the alternative methods like making the child sit close and next to the teacher while in class; followed by some form of encouragement after improvement may work or make him sit close to students that are having good behavior might work.

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