The theorists that we are studying are reacting to one or more of these assumptions:
· If I get angry, the students will see that their behavior was wrong and they will change.
· If the response to a misbehavior results in enough pain for the one misbehaving, it will cease.
· If a disincentive does not work, try twice as much of it the next time.
· The most direct and obvious intervention is probably the right one.
· Students’ thinking is exclusively self-referential.
· Teachers have to choose between being easy/nice or being hard/mean.
· Being passive aggressive can work in the end.
· How my students act has nothing to do with what and how I teach.
· It is essentially the students’ fault when they misbehave.
· The teacher ultimately “owns” the students’ behavioral problems.