As a young substitute teacher I experienced firsthand the downside of classroom management systems based
on rewards and punishment.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of restorative practices, a positive and proactive alternative to a traditional
rewards and punishment approach.
It is all about wrongheaded policies, too many round pegs in square holes, differences in
reward and punishment in the fight against corruption, lack of consistency and transparency and above all, a clear absence of swift legal framework, and undemocratic practices.
Once the doctrine of
future rewards and punishments took shape, the underworld became not so much the realm of the dead as the realm of the wicked, who there suffered their deserved torment, while those destined for the blessed life with God were naturally imagined as living in the heaven or sky above.
Grace is not awarded for the satisfactory completion of a spiritual check list — and grace is not earned for works or acts — and grace is not part of a quid pro quo arrangement or relationship — and grace is not a stipulation of a contract or covenant — and grace is not right thinking or thinking right or thinking good thoughts or having the right beliefs — and grace is not
about rewards and punishments — and grace is not about later.
All I knew about training dogs was what I had learned in Science class about animals being made to behave in certain ways
through rewards and punishments, so I naively (stupidly, actually) assumed that I could get Vicky to act in the ways that I had wanted by rewarding her for her good actions and punishing her for her bad ones.
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.
Reinforcement learning is an «under - the - hood» process in which people gradually learn which actions to take by processing
rewards and punishments at the neural level, and then choosing the one that works best on average — even if the person is not aware of it.
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.
Such
social rewards and punishments, he suggests, are internalized by the individual and become part of that person's own ethic, which then redounds to the benefit of others.
The principles of behavior modification apply to all living beings that can be
provided rewards and punishments, including dogs, dolphins, horses, rodents and people.
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.
They move chunks of information around in ways nothing else can — as payloads that convey intolerance, suppression of ideas and opinions, even violence at times, and persecution of dissenters, all with the weight behind it of an all - powerful God and it's
eternal rewards and punishments that are conveniently hidden in an unknowable afterlife.
Predictions of
coming reward and punishment, like the present beatitudes and woes, represent the alternatives of salvation or lostness involved in one's present situation.
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.
When the threat of random murder is omnipresent, we live in a world
where reward and punishment, life and death are so arbitrary that their very meaning looms precarious.
As for sanctions, check out the McGuffey «s Readers and other school texts invoked by today's traditionalists, which truly get
into rewards and punishments.