A Reason to Learn: Reinstating the Value of of Contribution
By Marilyn Dikeos
This practical book offers easy to use strategies that are a life saver for any regular or special education teacher, without indulging in rewards or punishments.
Empowered Discipline™ uses very specific feedback at a much higher frequency than traditional authoritarian-based rewards and punishments, and is the Hallmark of The Center for Empowered Teaching.
Given this kind of feedback students are stimulated to ask themselves, "Was it me?" instead of saying, "It wasn't me!" This self-evaluation causes them to change their own behavior and to correct their peers.
The motivation is intrinsic and based upon their desire to belong to the group from the very beginning. Resistance to pleasing is replaced by the power of belonging and empowerment through peer correction.
The teacher learns to achieve this by starting with the shift in paradigms from authoritarian to empowered paradigms. A Reason to Learn provides the needed paradigm shift and Empowered Discipline™ strategies to empower students.
(This book stands alone without the seminar, but is of course even more fully understood after taking a seminar).
Table of Contents
- Cultural Changes
- Shifting Paradigms
- Meeting the Needs of Today
- Choice Based Motivation
- Building Self Awareness
- Group Feedback Systems
- Individual Feedback
- Influence
- Ownership
Concepts
- Empowered Paradigm vs. Force/Fear Paradigm
- Three required elements of empowered social groups
- Matching symptoms of social groups who are not empowered
- Hierarchy of motivation from extrinsic to intrinsic
Strategies
- Chalk Talk
- Buddy Goals
- Improvement Scoring
- Story Frames
- Desk Charts
- Changing Norms
- Feedback, without rewards
- Self Evaluation and case studies
- Touchstones
120 pg. $20.00
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