Abstract
Psychological approaches address school discipline, school wide, classroom, and individual student needs through adequate prevention, targeted intervention, and development of student’s self-discipline. Schools often respond to disruptive students with psychological approaches that have limited value. This article explains strategies to improving school discipline practices and student behavior: reinforcement; shaping; token economy: and extinction. The paper discussed how social learning and operant conditioning theories of learning can be used to modify students’ behavior. The paper posits concept of school discipline, types of disciplines, models of disciplines, theoretical approach and its impact on students’ discipline. Positive reinforcement, token economy, extinction, teaching strategies and shaping were discussed as psychological approaches used to increase and maintain desirable behaviours among students. The paper recommended that, teachers should use principles of reinforcement to encourage well-disciplined students in the school, strategies such as reinforcement, skip time etc. should be used to correct students’ negative behaviour.

Keywords
Discipline, Psychological, Approaches, Enhancement, Reinforcement