Teachers must encourage, support pupils in an effort to uphold a positive, supportive learning environment. They must also merge their school’s pedagogical and behavioural principles with their own goals to form their individual teaching style and an effective classroom management plan. I will apply the hybrid theoretical approach as cited in Lyons et al …show more content…
As assertive discipline is a behavioural adjustment system, it is therefore imbedded in behaviourism. In addition to this the ‘Incentive theory’ in psychology necessitates motivation and behaviour of the individual whereby they are swayed by their beliefs, such as participating in activities that are anticipated to be of value. Incentive theory is endorsed by behavioural psychologists together with B.F. Skinner who endorses the ‘incentive theory’ within his philosophy of ‘radical behaviourism’. Furthermore a stated by Education.com, (2015) that we often see students’ motivation reflected by their personal time invested as well as cognitive, emotional, and behavioural engagement in school activities, this belief signifies that an individual’s actions always have social consequences. If actions are positively acknowledged , people are inclined to continue to act in this manner however , if negatively accepted , this behaviour is less likely to repeated