Alfie Kohn

Easy A? Do you know a voice that is not often heard throughout the educational debate? Students. The students know that they are miserable. They know that purpose of going to school is passing test to get into college, than going to college and passing more test to eventually graduate, and finally reaching the finish line to pursue onto a career and continue their lives. Well hopefully this happens, because if they don 't pass the test it could be the end of their lives. Grades have taken such…

some can be motivated to excel but others can be frustrated when the outcome is not go on their way. Sometimes it will cause conflicts. • “The central message of all competition is that other people are potential obstacles to one’s own success.”- Alfie Kohn (COOPERATIVE LEARNING MAGAZINE1993 – vol. 13, no. 3) In competition someone wins and someone loses, congratulate the winner and console the loser. Winner will get an advantage for example, get more prizes, opportunity to be known and to…

The benefits and detriments to praising a child Praising a child, especially young infants and toddlers, is common in child rearing and is a seemingly automatic response to a successful behavior (Brummeiman, Thomaes, Castro, 2014). According to Brummeiman, inflated praise is often given to a child in an attempt to boost their self-esteem. Two studies, a naturalistic, observational study and a controlled experiment looked at the drives behind an adult’s provision of praise (Brummeiman et al.,…

Standardized testing is such a headache. Standardized testing mainly started to take action in schools in 2001, when George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Standardized testing is any form of a test that requires all test takers to answer the same question. Standardized testing includes true or false questions, short answer questions, essay questions, or a mix between different types of questions. Standardized testing originated from China, but did not fully take action in…

have the chance to truly learn what outfit fits a certain event. Picking their outfit out also helps students with decision making. ‟Children, after all, learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions,” claimed Alfie Kohn, MA, education activist and author, stated in his Oct. 2, 1996 article. Students learn by making decisions. The students must choose an outfit to wear. To choose, they must think of what is happening at school that day. Wearing uniforms does…

abriella Visaggio EDFD 221 Midterm Exam 3/9/15 Essay Questions: 1. Today, many Americans believe that teaching is a feminized profession—but they don’t understand what thus means or how this happened. Drawing on the assigned readings and class discussion, write an essay that explains the historical development of the feminization of teaching to a general audience. Your essay should do three things: 1. Explain how, when, and why teaching became feminized in America. 2. Describe some of the key…

C. God Consent with Family Too “The Family Covenant” Genesis 17:10, “This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.” God made the covenant with Abraham as the unequal parties, that God himself that established the covenant, Abraham part was to agree to it and be blessed when he obey of it. The covenant sign of circumcision of forskin, it should apply to Abraham and his sons, from generation to generations.…

Sadly, the battle is only half over: Annie Carpenter, as mentioned before, was a former teacher. She has experience and practice formulating and dealing homework assignments—both off-the-shelf and thoroughly unique—-and with countless books and research under her belt, she has recently been deemed qualified to coach other teachers in hopes of generating, not only better homework practices and processes, but general instructional techniques, too. Carpenter now remains, not as a teacher, but an…

According to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) U.S. students reading and math test scored have declined dramatically for the first time in 20 years. There are many factors to take in to consideration before blaming The Common Core Standards, frequent testing in schools, the economy, and demographic changes. To what extent can schools be held accountable to meeting the needs of their students? In many urban areas students are already starting at a disadvantage or come from…

“What Does it Mean to Be Well-Educated,” an article from Principal Leadership on March 2003 by Alfie Kohn. He argues that our education system can improve but first our mindset must change on what it means to be educated. He uses his wife as an example her Alma Mater is Harvard University, an IV university, she is a highly intelligent physician but had poor grammar and very poor mathematical skills. First, he asks that we understand the purpose of an education. His view is that education is…