Punished By Rewards: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

When I transitioned from being a traditional teacher to Montessori, one of my training facilitators recommended this book. While I do think there is a time and place for extrinsic rewards, I have seen the pitfalls of rewarding students with trivial little trinkets. Good classroom management comes by building capacity for the intrinsic rewards we receive when learning something new or by being a good, kind person. Students need structure, consistency, empathy, and love instead of stickers and candy. This book also explains how rewards lead to unhealthy competition among students instead of fostering a supportive community of learners. I want them to compete with their own personal best, not each other.

Eu já sabia no ato da compra que era usado. Mas me supreendi que veio bonitinho e com essa capa da descrição.Nem demorou tanto pra chegar.

Amazing insight into the obvious determent to controlling people by rewards and punishments. Endless research to back up the findings. A must-read for teachers, business leaders, and parents.

This book is great, one every teacher and parent should read, but pretty in-depth and dense.If you're not going to buy it please take away this message - you *should* actively comment on how you NOTICE your child's hard-work, efforts, abilities, strengths, eg "you've drawn a very colourful picture, tell me about it" "you climbed right up to the top all by yourself!" and it's okay to let your voice and tone speak for your approval, and direct your child to how they might feel "Wow! You must feel so proud of yourself"... However, do try and try as hard as you can not to JUDGE their work with a "well done" "good job" "it's beautiful" or other similar judgy compliment (even though it's a "positive" judgement) - because ultimately you want your child to learn not to rely on other people's praise, even yours, but to assess their own work and to be able to be proud of themselves even when the external praise doesn't come. If not they will never really be satisfied until every last person approves of their work, you want them to be happy with their own approval. You also don't want their brains to get a kick from praise because it will quickly rely on it (praise is essentially verbal/social reward) because it quickly forms a neuro-transmitter addiction - so they slowly lose the ability to feel our human natural internal reward for the things they learn and the things they do since it is overtaken for the need for more addictive external reward. Taken to the extreme you have a kid who only works/learns for money/toys/sweets or whatever, and when these things diminish the effort diminishes.Also, please take away the idea that is absolutely absolutely beneficial and even essential to tell your child you love them and you are proud of them - just try to keep these unrelated to and separated in time from the things they have just done, as it sends a similar message that you love them because of what they achieve, which gives a message of insecurity "they won't love me if I stop achieving xyz". Your actions, your attention and your look of pride will tell them all they need to know on these occasions - so use these occasions to direct your child's attention to how they might feel IN THEMSELVES, how they should feel self-pride and enjoy their moment.You can see, I've read and annotated my book to the extent that it fell apart, this is partly because it's a secondhand book (arrived in fine condition) but mostly that I have read the living heck out of it!

Sucha a great book! Analyze rewards (or punishments) with children and adults either workplace or home. Every step is referenced and followed with deep explanations, I'm not a psichology maybe if you are a professional on this topic is not as deep as you need.