Essay On Mistaken Behavior

Assignment one, writing a three -page paper on defining mistaken behavior and misbehavior. Then compare and contrast mistaken behavior and misbehavior, and also explain the value of having an understanding practices and how that can help teachers guide young children. Thinking about what I have been learning in class on mistaken behavior and misbehavior. I am going to take what I have learned in class and out of class to define mistaken behavior and misbehavior. Mistaken behavior is when the child makes mistakes. Mistakes mean that when a child doesn’t know what he’s doing can carry consequences. Like on page 110 displays, “Mistaken behavior can be and often is done on purpose. Without the brain development and experience to manage conflicts, young children make errors in judgment and act on the basis of strong feelings”. In mistaken behavior, there are three levels. These levels found on page 86 of the book. The levels are “level one: Experimentation …show more content…
Comparing the mistaken behavior and misbehavior, they are both resolved the same way. Both are solved by teaching the child to solve their problems in a different way. Not having to do what they were doing before that was wrong. Also, they both give teachers the experience to learn more and understand the children more, and also the teacher will be able to get new ideas. Getting these new ideas and having the experience will help the teacher be able to help the child. As the book mentions on page 81 “Both are similar to traditional discipline, in a guidance approach, there are consequences for when a child shows mistaken behavior”. Misbehavior also is a behavior that has consequences just like mistaking behavior has. Another thing I could think of is that both are behaviors the children go, though. They are both things children learn from and develop. They are also both helpful to children and for the teacher as well to learn from one