How my new knowledge of conditioning has affected my teaching
Since I now understand the concept of conditioning I can better understand some of students seemingly unfounded reactions. I have a particular student who always gets extremely offended at the slightest challenge. and his response is always the same. " dem ah try bwoy bwoy me up" He always seems just on the threshold of anger and he also tends to hand a negative reaction to touch. I definitely see it as operant conditioning to perhaps some physical and defintiely mental abuse. I'm going to recommend counseling. I know he is reluctant but the behaviour seems to be getting worse.