behavioral strategies

Teachers often use behaviorist strategies in cases that have to do with discipline.  From my experiences from school, discipline is the most often used behavioral strategies, or a negative reinforcement.  In my homeroom class the teacher would turn off the lights and not let us watch Channel 1 until the class was silent.  This worked most of the time.  The stimulus was all electricity was enabled until the correct response was made, being quiet.  There are some cases in which teachers use positive behavioral strategies.  I had a Social Studies teacher who would allow us to collect bonus points by bringing in 5 articles, one per day, to help raise the student’s grade.  The stimuli, positive reinforcement, were the bonus points.  The correct response, if the child would want bonus points, would be to read an article from a newspaper.  There are many behaviors in classrooms that a teacher is going to encounter.  In order to maintain the proper classroom environment teacher should use positive and negative reinforcements.