Managing classroom through “ Behaviour Shaping"

If you are a teacher this article is going to be very helpful for you during class and school time. As teachers we want our students to be good in every aspect during class. We want them to be excellent in their studies as well as superb in their behaviour with teachers, fellows and supporting staff.

Maintaining a descent behaviour in students during class time is a little bit tricky because there are plenty of students under the supervision of a single teacher. So teachers have to be very considerate and active than parents. They have greater responsibilities than parents. They need more patience, more passion, more sympathy and tolerance than parents. That’s why most teachers stuck in the classroom as what to do with stubborn kids? How to handle tantrums of a new bird?

How to maintain class discipline?

How to make students sit on their place?

How to make them active listener?

How to make an hyperactive student behave properly?

To answer all these questions, a teacher must know the ABC’s of behaviour.

What are the ABC’s of behaviour?

The ABC model of behvior is an approach to modify a particular behaviour by looking at it in a wide scenario where A stands for antecedent or triggering event for a behaviour.

B stands for the behaviour that occurs.

C stands for the consequences of that behaviour.

There are many tools in the ABC’s of behaviour modification model that can be helpful for teachers to actively maintain classroom discipline but most effective is “Shaping"

What is Shaping?

Shaping is a step by step technique of modifying a behaviour. It can also called taking baby steps before jumping the bars. It is a gradual process where we starts from easier task and than move on to bigger and difficult tasks and eventually address the main problem or behaviour. For example:

A student is newly admitted in kindergarten who has his elder brother in primary section. Whenever he comes to school he insists to sit with elder brother in his class.And when he has been stopped from sitting with him, he starts crying and throwing things.

So the teacher comes up with the “Shaping" strategy. He allows him to sit with his brother for few days and his behaviour of crying and shouting stops immediately. Then he has been encouraged to do some work with elder brother like counting, tracing , colouring etc and he done it excitedly. Eventually he has been asked to come in his own section and class. And he done it happily.

This is one of the many examples of kids tantrums and behaviours at school that can be handled easily through a very little knowledge of ABC' of behaviour and modifying strategies of behaviour with a little practice and more patience.

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