Suppose You Are the Physical Education Teacher at a Local

Suppose you are the physical education teacher at a local middle school. You have effectively used learning stations to work on shooting and dribbling. But you have three students-Alex, Cody, and Scott-who seem to have a difficult time staying on task. If they are in the same group, they talk and engage in horseplay through the station work instead of performing the tasks, and if you put them in different groups they throw balls at each other and disrupt the other groups. You don't want to punish the whole group for their lack of discipline. Which of the following approaches would best address this situation?

A) Use positive reinforcement to increase on-task behaviors and punishment such as direct talks and verbal reprimands or time out procedures to decrease off-task behaviors (i.e., talking, horseplay, and disruptive acts) .
B) Use praise to increase on-task behaviors and social reinforcers to decrease off-task behaviors (i.e., talking, horseplay, and disruptive acts) .
C) Use punishment to increase on-task behaviors and negative reinforcement to decrease off-task behaviors (i.e., talking, horseplay, and disruptive acts) .
D) Hold a conference with these students and establish a contingency management plan whereby you use positive reinforcement to increase on-task behaviors and negative reinforcement to decrease off-task behaviors (i.e., talking, horseplay, and disruptive acts) .