In his book, The First Days of School; How to Be an Effective Teacher, classroom management guru, Harry Wong, quotes research conducted by Madeline Hunter. He asks us to consider the following information:
- For a child to learn something new, you need to repeat it on the average 8 times.
- For a child to unlearn an old behavior and replace it with a new behavior, you need to repeat the new behavior on the average 28 times.
- 20 of those times are used to eliminate the old behavior and 8 of the times are used to learn the new behavior.
The implication of this information is enormous:
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