In an exclusive e-interview with Education World writer Cara Bafile, Kohn shares his views on
classroom rewards and punishment and talks about how teachers can encourage intrinsic motivation.
Not exact matches
Positive Discipline parenting
and classroom tools teach valuable social
and life skills without using any form of
punishment,
rewards, praise, permissiveness
and even logical consequences.
As a young substitute teacher I experienced firsthand the downside of
classroom management systems based on
rewards and punishment.
Veteran teachers can recall
classroom management strategies that drew on
rewards,
punishments, combinations of the two,
and a good healthy dose of fear from time to time.
They saw democratic leadership focused on kind
and firm
classroom management, not
rewards and punishment, as the key to developing long term academic, social,
and emotional success.