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How to train your teacher (from MIT professor, serious)
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How to train your teacher (from MIT professor, serious)

Pavlovian conditioning, you wring a bell, give food to dog, dog salivates. Do this enough times, when you'll ring the bell, the dog will salivate. Its a classic experiment, you most probably know about it.

You say, yea we know, so what? Why you are saying this here? I don't see the link with teachers. Weeeelllll this mechanism doesn't work the way you think, so here how you can apply this on teachers.

What teachers like? They like to see there students interested, asking questions, taking notes, being polite, not being disruptive, etc....
What teachers like? They don't like to see there class disrupted ,rude student, rebellious students, etc....

Next, you decide what trick they are supposed to do when you reward them( like a dog Biggrin). The "tricks" are stuff like, standing in a particular place in class, scratching his nose, wiping clean his glasses, blinking, crossing his arms, etc... You get the point. Every time, the teacher does what you want to reinforce, the whole( at least a lot of students) class reinforces it with something from the list that the teacher likes. If you want to make him stop doing certain things (like the "tricks"), the class is doing stuff from the list that he doesn't like.

When you finished training him, when you give him the reward, he will unconsciously do what you decided he should do. Scratch his nose, weep clean his glasses, etc......

Spread the the good word please. Cool

Open questions to elaborate on. Is it more disruptive to tell him that you are doing this? If he knows, he will try to resist? How is he going to trust the class reactions then? His mistrust would impact in what way his teachings? If he doesn't , he will be more manipulable? What kind of sanctions can the school come up with? How are they going to differentiate real from manipulative reactions for sanction? You'll be risking sanctions if you do what teachers like in class?.....
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I have a vague understanding of how these things work. But I'm pretty sure telling them outright wouldn't work. It wouldn't do much good per say (unless the "trick" is when they say "no homework today"), but it might be fun to try.

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CrayolaColours Wrote:I have a vague understanding of how these things work. But I'm pretty sure telling them outright wouldn't work. It wouldn't do much good per say (unless the "trick" is when they say "no homework today"), but it might be fun to try.

It was tried during university lectures, it works, its not just theory. The professor ask the class to do it on him Smile

Think about the implications if you tell the teacher that the class is doing this. This is not a friendly move as with the professor.

I would like to see this added in the site somewhere.
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Yeah, but they'd never catch on if you didn't tell them, so it's moot.

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Now that i think about it. The trick works if a significant number of students are playing the game. With that many people, it will not be long until it reaches the teachers.

Like i said earlier, i would like to see this added in the site somewhere. Some one want to propose a text and a location? We will discuss it a little bit.
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