Operant Conditioning Plan

In preschool we use token economy every day. Each day the students will get a chart where they get to pick their reward (positive reinforcer) from a select options. Then they carry their charts around throughout the day. We give rewards for any kind of positive behavior, doing their work, being in the correct area, sitting quietly, etc.. Place holder rewards are given for all of these behaviors, the place holder reward is a penny that they velcro onto their chart. Once they earn 5 penny's then they get the reward they chose for just a few minutes and repeat. When they show a negative behavior, we just ignore it.

Sometimes if a student is refusing to do a task, we will make the task smaller. Say they have 6 shapes to color, but they wont, we will say okay, if you color 1 shape then we can move onto..... That would be a negative reinforcer.

When a student comes into a situation and they want a toy that another student is playing with and they start hitting in order to get that toy, they will loose the opportunity to play with it at all. They have to sit on a chair and watch instead, that would be a presentation punishment that we use in class often.

We also use removal punishments often. I a student is using a marker to color on the table rather than on the paper, they will have the marker taken away so that they can not color at all.