Alfie Kohn
on Rewards and Punishment Former teacher Alfie Kohn is an outspoken critic of the focus on grades and test scores.
As a young substitute teacher I experienced firsthand the downside of classroom management systems based
on rewards and punishment.
More recently, beginning with Schleiermacher, there has been a lessening of emphasis
on rewards and punishments after death.
Teachers can approach the task of motivating students in two ways: They can use external motivation, which depends
on rewards and punishments, or internal motivation, which depends on the needs or drives within students.
Systems Failure: Moving Beyond the One - Size - Fits - All Approach to Behavior Management Clip systems, behavior folders, time out, prize boxes, and behavior bucks are just a handful of the many systems relying
on rewards and punishments to change behavior.
Not exact matches
You've found patterns of
rewards and punishments based
on it
and created a lifestyle to give you
reward and avoid
punishment based
on it.
The growth of China's surveillance technology comes as the state rolls out an enormous «social credit system» that ranks citizens based
on their behaviour,
and doles out
rewards and punishments depending
on their scores.
Now, he was speaking about degrees of
punishment and reward based upon what a person knew concerning his master as he went
on to explain that to whom much is given much is expected.
The major religions we see in the world today have evolved over hundreds or thousands of years, but they most follow the pattern I described, so for the most part they all involve some form of worship, the concepts of
rewards,
punishments,
and obedience,
and so
on.
He reported sarcastically that «there» were some members [at the Constitutional Convention] so unfashionable as to think that a belief of the existence of a Deity,
and of a state of future
rewards and punishments would be some security for the good conduct of our rulers,
and that in a Christian country it would be at least decent to hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity
and downright infidelity or paganism» (IV: 642) This chapter also includes excerpts from state constitutions that imposed religious tests
on government officers (Delaware, for example.
For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests
on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside
and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey,
and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future
rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral
and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.
The parable of the last judgment does indicate
reward and punishment, but this is
on the general basis of how we treat our neighbors rather than how closely we follow divinely imposed rules.
It was also held that Muslims must believe in the Messenger's Traditions concerning the Resurrection,
punishment,
reward,
and walking
on the path to Heaven.
It is the decisive event in which God's judgment
on the whole of history is rendered with the corresponding outcome, customarily described as
reward and punishment.
Furthermore, it's hard to believe such obedience is anything but the product of coercion given it is flanked
on one side by a promise of
reward and on the other by a threat of
punishment.
Of the four ideas mentioned, his teaching touches most closely
on the third,
and there it cuts against any simple views of
reward and punishment based
on divinely given rules.
Any system of belief that is based
on fear of
punishment and hope for
reward is inherently barbaric
and evil as it eliminates intellectual freedom from the equation.
This bears directly
on the question of subjective immortality
and the prospect of eternal
reward or
punishment.
On the contrary, I feel that there must be a void in the lives of religious people to feel that they need to force themselves to keep believing in these silly myths in order to have a reason to do good things
and be good people... that it's not enough for them to be «good» for the sake of goodness, for the sake of our society
and our world... that they must believe that there is to be some great
reward for themselves or some great
punishment after death in order to motivate them to be good.
Is it possible
and after reading about it i kept
on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me
and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help
and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know
and can easily think think about much better
punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life
and i am feeling put
on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you
and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting
and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day
and moon was not visible
on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists
and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross
and also not for eternal life
and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced
and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot
and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus
and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit
and no more but recive their
reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell
and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before
and i think it was also Adam
and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan
and could have also get their
punishment reduced but they didn't
and today we are seeing the result
If the scales of
reward and punishment for good
and bad behavior were not balanced here
on earth, they would be balanced — the preachers would tell you — beyond the grave in the heavenly places or in the fiery pits of hell.
I don't want to drop a human psychology bomb
on you, but all humans are governed by
reward and punishment to a certain extent.
They include the naming of angels (Michael, Raphael
and so
on); a personal Devil (which Satan later became) with accompanying demons; a Book of Life which records the deeds of people during their lifetime; a coming cosmic conflict in which the forces of evil will be finally overthrown; the separation of the soul from the body at death; a general resurrection
and a universal judgement;
and an afterlife with
rewards and punishments.
Not only were penalties imposed
on earth but
punishments and rewards offered in the life to come.
The final factor in improving technique will be reforming
and simplifying the system of
rewards,
punishments,
and rules governing player conduct
on the field.
If you're being the coach
and encouraging your child along the way, rather than the judge with the
reward or
punishment at the other end, your child will definitely gain a sense of being capable
and develop higher self esteem from the inside (as opposed to hanging their self esteem
on external approvals).
Even when parents choose non-violent means to control their children such as isolation (i.e. time - outs)
and behavior charts
and other
punishment /
reward tactics, the basic truth is that they are modelling manipulation
and coercion
and are focused
on controlling a child's behavior externally rather than working with them to help them learn to control their own behavior through an internal guidance system.
It doesn't matter if you're an authoritarian parent, hot
on punishment and reward, or a gentle parent, focused
on connection
and empathy.
Time out, consequences,
rewards,
and punishments, are all parenting methods that focus
on fixing our child's behaviour.
If you are seeking to manipulate
and control your children for the sake an outcome based
on your
and modern, mainstream societies convenience with tactics like cry - it - out,
punishments,
rewards, or milestone competition, then I'm not the guide for you.
Sundance Canyon Academy stays away from traditional behavior modification techniques of
punishment and rewards,
and instead focuses
on healing the problems
and therefore affecting behavioral changes.
Gentle Discipline is a world away from the
punishments and rewards so often advocated
and turns what many think about raising children
on its head.
Remember to base feedback
on rewards and praise, not
punishment.
find a friend to help loose the weight with... locate your resources that will help you succeed
on your path to healthy living
and you will get their... take pictures as you reach your goals... do not use food as a
reward and do not look at this as a
punishment, or everyone else get to eat whatever
and you cant....
For example, the medial orbitofrontal cortex is thought to be heavily involved with «values of potential decision outcomes
and adjusting those values based
on learnings
and experiences of
reward or
punishment.»
China is implementing a Big Brother - style system that scores citizens based
on their behaviour, with
rewards and punishments meted out accordingly.
This section also includes specific information
on establishing
and enforcing class rules, meting out
punishments and offering
rewards,
and learning to resolve conflicts.
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.
Do you base discipline
on a system of
rewards and punishment?
Within the evolving standards
and accountability movement, states (rather than the nation or school districts) have borne the responsibility to develop standards, tests linked to those standards,
and a system of
rewards and punishments for schools depending
on their performance.
If these new tests could detect whether schools
and educators were changing their practices in the ways desired by Common Core
and if
rewards and punishments could be imposed
on schools
and educators for their compliance with the new standards, then perhaps the empty words of standards could be transformed into a real change in the education system.
Fair
and equitable discipline policies
and bullying prevention practices are more effective than purely behavioral methods that rely
on reward or
punishment (Bear et al., 2015).
Such volatility can wreak havoc when
rewards and punishments are doled out
on the basis of changes in test scores; school personnel are at risk of being punished or
rewarded for results that are beyond their control.
But since then, the high - stakes testing movement has blown up: with increasing frequency, student scores
on standardized exams are tied to teacher, school,
and district evaluations, upon which
rewards and punishments are meted out.
The ideology rests
on a firm belief in extrinsic
rewards and punishments.
Alfie lectures
on the topics of
rewards and punishments, standardized testing, parenting,
and business management.
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.
The study, conducted by economics professors Scott J. Adams
and John S. Heywood at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, claims there are «significant downsides of
reward -
punishment systems based
on quantitative outcomes, whether in the public or private sector.»
But two
and a half decades of toxic policies — including
punishments and rewards for school systems based largely
on terminating or moving principals — has led to teachers being at sea amid a squall of inconsistent initiatives
and demands.
He could be violent when necessary, sometimes when not, but he didn't discriminate
on the grounds of color when it came to
reward and punishment.