Teach English in Suiyang Nongchang - Xiangyang Shi — Xiangfan

Time to change our minds! Beat the child. Beat the child. Beat the child. Is corporal punishments really necessary? Punishment is the reaction to a lack of discipline, so the final step for preventing the need of punishment is to teach and encourage discipline. Teachers need to be able to set boundaries of their classrooms. A classroom without boundaries and consequences is a great disservice to every student in the class. When a child misbehaves in school, he/she is cheating the other children out of their education because the teacher is not teaching when he/she is dealing with behavioural issues. Teachers have to tread carefully when dealing with disrespectful children. They are not allowed to raise their voice as this is considered as verbal abuse, they cannot spank as this is considered physical abuse, which could cause teacher and school to be sued. Emerging research suggests corporal punishments of school may harm a child's cognitive ability. As the child is growing up, your only job is to learn and enjoy life. If the children are exposed to corporal punishments of learning environment, they may have a long term harmful effects on children's verbal intelligence and their executive functioning ability. The neurobiological changes caused by chronic negative experiences and a history of adversity can trigger a fear response to the brain. As Pam Leo says, " A hurtful child is a hurt filled child. Trying to change his/her behaviour with punishment is like trying to pull off only the top part of the weed. If we don't get to the root, the hurtful behaviour pops up elsewhere. In children the fear response often looks aggressive, defiant and oppositional. Researchers have shown that corporal punishments do not have an impact on the determination of behaviour or learning ability in children. Corporal punishment can leave a lasting impression; and it could be described as a borderline child abuse, dependent upon an object or a method of administering corporal punishment. Teacher may use a paddle, a hand, a switch or any other object that has the capacity to inflict physical pain. This is done without any consideration of potential risk that hitting or inflicting physical pain to a child might have in the present or future. In case one considers as a mode, then it should always be age appropriate. The classrooms would be complete chaos if there were no consequences of bad behaviour. Maybe the students be given extra school work as punishment or be required to write an essay about respect, common courtesy, good behaviour. Research shows that corporal punishment results in mental health issues and worsened behavioural problems. It is also linked to significantly lower grades. For many children, corporal punishments especially inflicted by someone other than parents is intensively traumatic. Now let's talk about the reinforcement. The next effective way to teach a person a new behaviour is with positive reinforcement; where a desirable stimulus is added to increase a behaviour. For example: you tell your 5 year old son that if he cleans his room, he will get a toy; he will quickly clean his room because he wants a new art set. Positive reinforcement as a learning tool is extremely effective. Whereas in negative reinforcement, an undesirable stimulus is removed to increase a behaviour. For example: Using an alarm set to wake up a child in the morning, which requires him to get up from bed to turn it off, thus he is awake and can start his day. Thus reinforcement is favoured over punishment, that you can catch your child doing something good reward him/her for it. Hence I conclude by saying lets discipline the students with love and affection, than any form of corporal punishment. Let's teach, not hit.