• Teacher, who accepts the behavioral perspective, must assume the behavioral
of student is controlled by their past and present anvironment. An additional
intuitive step leads to the conclusion that the environment in which teacher
meets students - the classroom - is filled with possible reinforcement
contingencies that can influence learning. The antics of clasroom clown are
reinforced by attention from his peers, so he "learns" to be more disruptive :
a withdrawn student "learns" that his environment does not serve up
reinforcement for gregariousness, resulting in the strengthening of silence : a
productive student "learns" solid geometry because the teacher smiles, give
him an A, and dad lend him acars. The environment that controls behavior is
complex ; pervesive; and to the untained eye random.
• Recegnizing these possibilities, a behaviorally oriented teacher set out to
structure an environment whose contingencies of rainforcement strengthen
the behavior that he consider appropriate. The task becones one of
contructing a classroom where the probability that student will be reinforced
for emitting learning behavior is maximized.
PERAN PENGALAMAN