Behavior Management
Strategy: Premack Principle
Appropriate Grade Level: K- 12th grades
Procedures/Steps:
- Specify what the student will receive after completing a task to help ensure completion
of the task.
Ex. When you are done doing your homework, we will go play on the
playground. Ex. a parent requiring a child to clean his or her room before he or she can
watch television. In this case, television, an activity that probably does not require
reinforcement, is used as a reinforcer for cleaning the room, which in the context of this
example the child would not do without reinforcement.
Comments and/or tips:
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The teacher must know what motivates the student (interest inventory, having
students make a list of things they are interested in, give students a list of possible
prizes and have them pick three)
Source:
Warner, L., & Lynch, S., (2003). Classroom problems that don’t go away. Childhood
Education, 79(2), 97-100.