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teachers needed to improve their ability to reward appropriate behaviour in the classroom.
I knew that teachers were always going to use sanctions but I soon realised that many teachers subverted the changes in the climate of their classrooms not because they used sanctions but because of the way they used them. Teachers and parents needed to find a way to sanction children without the massive deterioration in relationship that I was witnessing. It was clear that I needed to find a way of training teachers and parents to use sanctions and train children about consequences positively.
Tangible, concrete, sanctions (punishments) implemented in a positive way worked well. Concrete sanctions without positiveness created a resentment that generated further problems. The new parental disease of positiveness combined with talking, moralising, telling off didn't work at all and the positiveness soon petered out.
Yet our instincts tell us that all of these responses to behaviour should be capable of having an effect. What is it then that stops them working?
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