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Haleigh Wambolt

Incentives in an Elementary Classroom

How are incentives/rewards effective in shaping student behavior in an elementary classroom? My research question examined how students react to positive reinforcement/praise better than negative reinforcement or punishment. Going off of my own observation, taking away something like recess from all students because of one students negative behavior usually does not have a huge impact on redirecting student behavior, if anything it may make it worse. As an educator there are a lot of things to take into consideration when trying to shape behavior in the classroom for example, if the student is on a 504 or IEP and may need accommodations. Based on the research, having a token economy really improves behavior in the classroom and students become more motivated. Whether the incentive is visual, tangible, or verbal, students become more self motivated and it builds a healthy relationship between the student and the teacher. Based on the findings, using certain incentives that are student-focused is very effective and will be a strategy I use in my classroom.

EDUC 321, Classroom Relations and Management

Brian Kaelin

Goodrich 204

10 AM – Noon

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Haleigh Wambolt

Mary Wollstonecraft and womens rights

My presentation is on Mary Wollstonecraft. She was an advocate for women’s rights until the late 20th century. She advocates educating children into the emerging middle-class ethos. Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) criticizes aristocracy and promotes republicanism in reaction to Edmund Burke’s Reflection on the Revolution in France (1790), which was a defense of constitutional monarchy, aristocracy, and the Church of England. Among the first writings of feminist philosophy is a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792. In it, Wollstonecraft makes the case that women should receive an education appropriate to their social status and assert that women are vital to the country because they raise its children and can be more than just wives-they can be their husbands’ “companions.” Most of Wollstonecraft’s early writings are devoted to education. She put together The Female Reader, an anthology of literary excerpts “for the improvement of young women.” In thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), her conduct book, and in Original stories from real life (1788), her children’s book, Wollstonecraft promotes teachings to kids in the values of developing middle-class ethos: Self-control, integrity, thrift, and social contentment. Both works stress the value of instilling reason in kids, demonstrating Wollstonecraft’s intellectual debt to the influential educational philosopher John Locke of the 17th century. Additionally, she advocates for women’s education in both texts-a contentious issue at the time that she would revisit throughout her career. According to Wollstonecraft, educated women make excellent mothers and spouses and will eventually make contributions to society. 

Again this is just a summary of some of the things I am going to talk about in my presentation. These are her contributions and her theories on education and women’s rights and equality. I will be adding more detail to the presentation and more in-depth detail about the effects on society that she made and her past life as well. 

HIST 152, History of Western Civilization ll

Stephen Andes

Bucher Room

1 – 4 PM

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