Behaviorist School Of Thought

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There are three school of thought can be use in pedagogy methods which is behaviorist, cognitive and humanistic. If I am a teacher, I will choose behaviorist school of thought to practice in my economics subject class. Behaviorist school of thought can be explained that behavioral cause by the environment rather than external forces. Its means how the environment can influence in our behavioral.

Why I want to practice behavioral school of thought rather than humanistic and cognitive? Nowadays, the school system in Malaysia mostly used behavioral school of thought. Behavioral is follow or imitating steps or process from the teacher procedure. As I mention earlier that I will teach Economics subject that particularly has some calculation. I think it is easy for student to follow the procedures that I guide for them. There are many advantage from this school of thought. First, I can shape the student behavioral quickly. For example, as a teacher I need to be punctual to come to the class so the student will know that they need to punctual too because they know that Economics class will be start on time. Next, the student will adapt with the environment. For example, after my class I will give 2 pages exercise, so they have to adapt that after my class they will get 2 pages exercise. When we use behaviorist school of thought their behavior can be measured. For example, I can use test or pop quiz to measure either they can solve the problem correctly or not. Actually the student can be changed and controlled.

IVAN PAVLOV

Ivan Pavlov is one of the philosopher  in behaviorist  school of thought. Ivan Pavlov create an experiment about the dog and bell. In this experiment, Ivan Pavlov wanted to see whether external stimuli can affect the salivation process. Ivan Pavlov will ring the bell when he give a food to the dog and the will salivate when the dog see the food. After a while with a same situation, then he bell without a food and the dog will salivate although it didn’t has a food. Ivan Pavlov this learning as a process “conditioning”. From this experiment we know that the environment can influence behavioral.

In conclusion, if  I practice this school of thought,  I think it can change the student behavioral. For example, in my class there are no student will be excuse from solve the problem that I give. So the student will know that they need to solve the problem that I give to them. 

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