Blog 7: Punishment

In this blog, I will be focusing on ineffective punishments that are explained in the course text book. Some ineffective punishments include physical punishment, psychological punishment, extra homework, withdrawal from recess, and out-of-school suspensions (Bohlin, Durwin, & Reese-Webber, 2012, pp.165-66). In my classroom, none of these punishments occur within the classroom. Although, whenever the class as a whole is misbehaving and not paying attention to her instruction, she will threaten to take away their recess time. She never does take it away completely because she understands that her students do need that time to release some of their energy to be able to focus in class, but she may take away some of the time that they have outside.

The school I intern at understands that out-of-school suspension is ineffective because in most occasions, students view not going to school has a reward and not a punishment (Bohlin, Durwin, & Reese-Webber, 2012, pp.166). So in contrast, the school has after school detention for students to reflect on their actions and get their school work done.

Of course, physical punishment is not used in the classroom anymore but is still a part of some of the student’s home lives. I have a great speculation that one of the students in my class does get beatings for her behavior although I do not know to what extent to deem it abusive or extreme. She is often quite in class and does not talk to adult strangers until she feels like she can trust them. What can teachers do to create positive interactions between parents and their children without accusing the parents of conducting physical punishment?

Extra homework is never given in the classroom that I intern in, although, whatever classroom work that students do not finish may become homework if they cannot do the work the next da. I wonder if students still see extra homework as punishment when it is multiplied because their misbehavior in class caused them to gain additional work?

Bohlin, L., Durwin, C.C., & Reese-Webber, M. (2012). Edpsych Modules (Second Edition). New York. Mc Graw Hill Higher Education.

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