How the threshold effect can be applied to teaching

In real life, we all have this experience: when you make a request to someone, if you are very demanding at the beginning, it is easy to be rejected; It will be easier to achieve the goal if you start with a low demand and then gradually increase the weight of the request after he agrees. In fact, when a person accepts a small request, in order to maintain the consistency of the image, he is likely to accept a more significant and difficult request, this phenomenon is called the "threshold effect", also known as the inch effect.

Through observation and practice, I feel that this effect can be applied to many aspects of class management.

For example, we can apply this effect to the transformation of latecomers. Because junior students not only have poor grades and bad study habits, but more importantly, they have a weak sense of time and lack of discipline, not only do they fall behind, but what is more annoying is that they also affect others. Therefore, transforming them will not only benefit the junior students personally, but also other students.

As a person in the front line of teaching, we are naturally familiar with the fact that the focus of the management of junior students is generally on the constraints and norms of their behavior, and to change a problem with them is actually to change a habit of them. But their habits don't happen overnight, and changing their bad habits requires not only perseverance, but also methods. For example, Xiaocheng is often late, late on duty, late when not on duty, and always late for class.

After criticizing it many times, the effect is not obvious. I had worked hard about this, but after seeing this threshold effect, I suddenly became enlightened, and after talking and discussing with him again, we jointly formulated a method to limit the number of times he can be late per week, the first week, you can be late three times, and then decrease once a week, and you must change the problem of being late every four weeks. If you do that, give verbal praise to the class and give extra points to reinforce the results.

Practice has proved that the effect is quite good. Subsequently, I continued to work hard and used the same method to help him get rid of bad habits such as talking in class and not doing homework, and now he has graduated and left, but in my subsequent conversations with him, I can still see that he is very grateful for my help in these aspects.

If a person accepts a small request from others, then if others make a higher request on this basis, this person will also tend to accept. This is called the "threshold effect", also known as the "inch into the mold brigade grinding ruler effect".

Don't let embarrassment hurt you".

Has anything similar happened in your life?

Sometimes, maybe because it's just a small thing, we are willing to do it and won't refuse others. And then when I am asked for a higher request, I will do it because of this matter, so I might as well do the new request. I was asked again, and I was even more embarrassed to refuse.

So how do you prevent this from happening?

Method 1: Reject directly.

Although it is a small thing, if you don't want to do it, don't feel embarrassed, refuse when you should refuse, no one says that small things must be helped.

Method 2: Define the limit.

It may not be clear to others, but you must know where your limits are, and once you reach them, you will not hesitate to refuse.

It's a simple method, but it helps to open up a simpler way of dealing with people and things.

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