Positive Reinforcement

Positive reinforcement is the addition of a reward following a desired behavior. For example, if
the teacher wants the students to keep on doing good behaviors like sitting nicely, participate,
doing their homework etc. they will give them something in return to reward them and encourage
that behavior to appear more. Here are the types and some examples of positive reinforcement in
early childhood classroom:

Tangible Token Natural Social reinforcement:

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actual physical rewarding tokens for results that attention being given for a
reward, such as a particular behavior naturally occur as particular behavior.
candy, money, that can be exchanged a result of the
stickers or some for something of behavior. For example: a smile ,
other treat. value. high five etc.
For example, a
student studies
well, he gets high
grades.