There is a popular speculation that reinforcement leads to improvement in learning and behaving in classrooms. I would like to add to this point that not only classrooms use reinforcements but also many parents are encouraged to use reinforcements as a part of their children’s learning tool. For example, behaving accordingly at home or finishing up the homework early. In the book “Short-Term Play Therapy for Children” (Kaduson & Schaefer, 2000) the author mentions that if a child has a fear of going to bed alone using small rewards such as stickers can help him to achieve the goal.

I think that the use of reinforcement is an excellent way to get children active in classroom and as well as in their family and learn from different lessons. However, on the other side as Wolfgang mentioned a child might get used to the reinforcement and would want a reward after any activity he does or he can also purposefully misbehave in class hoping to get an offer for reinforcement. A solution to this problem can be more use of social or intrinsic reinforcements. Penny Mukherji, the author of “Understanding Children’s Challenging Behavior” (2001), suggested that children should get used to the intrinsic reinforcement more because as they grow older, children will come across more situations that does not have an immediate reward for behaving well. A positive comment can encourage a child with certain activity and later on they can moderate their own behavior by themselves.

Developing children can sometimes be hard to maintain and reinforcement is one of the way to teach them proper lessons. Appropriate practice with reinforcement can provide with learning developments in children including special education needs and increase actively participation in classrooms. The three different types of reinforcement can characterized as social, activity and tangible and they are illustrated by positive comments, pleasurable activities and rewards. Some argue that using reinforcements can lead to bribes, lower intrinsic motivation, and unequal use. However, using them effectively can result in successful learning with analyzing behavior identification, proper selection of reinforces, implementation, and evaluation and fading. Selecting the appropriate reinforcement can be hard when considering a child’s personality, needs and capabilities but its practice can improve a child’s development and learning