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** Being a teacher is more than teaching a subject in particular to students; it also involves teaching responsibility and values that can be applied to everyday society. During my last practicum I put into practice a behaviour management strategy (after feedback from my mentor), based on the “Operant Conditioning” (B.F. Skinner, 1951) which fundamentally reinforced good behaviour towards teacher and fellow students by a positive consequence (earning time) or a negative consequence (no cooking, time out time, etc.). These reinforcements aimed to teach students to behave more accordingly to the values of Darwin High School. ** // “Their behaviour was bad, they pushed as many boundaries as they could… some couldn’t stop disengaging other fellow students. I had a difficult time making them work and think on the content. My mentor gave me feedback to reinforce the school values…” // **Monday 24th August** // “I think you need to have a lesson about behavioural expectations so that you can nip it in the bud. I know this derails the program, but if you don’t get the behaviour in this class under control, you will have a very difficult time for the rest of your prac” //** Monday 24th August 2009 ** // “ //// The behaviour management strategy that you developed for this lesson was really good. This lesson, the students all appear to be very quiet this afternoon” // **Friday 28th August 2009** I always displayed an ethical behaviour when communicating with students. **__Extract from my Journal:__** // “This afternoon in my class of FCS I had a group of girls talking about living independently and the good things about it to me, suddenly one of the girls said “is good so you can have sex; what do you think Sir?”, all the group start laughing and I told her that I respect her opinion but I didn’t want to be involved in the conversation anymore, and move out of the group…” //** Thursday 24th September 2009 **
 * Graduate teachers begin to share responsibility for the integrity of the profession by promoting learning, the value of education and the profession in the wider community. **
 * __ Extract from my journal: __**
 * __ Year 11 Mentor comments: __**