EDC / Extra Credit: (from 1-5 points)
Please read Alfie Kohn’s The Punishment of Rewards (attached) and do the following:
Write a two-to-three-page paper, APA style, double spaced that addresses the following:
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Summarize Kohn’s thesis in the first paragraph.
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In the second paragraph, write your own thesis about what Kohn believes. What do YOU believe?
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In the rest of the paper, explain your experience with punishment and rewards in your classrooms. Provide examples, please. THEN, explain what you might use instead (transform…what will you do in the future?)
Please proofread and edit your paper before submitting it by email to me. Let me know if you have an idea for a different extra credit project.
Due no later than April 1st, please. EMAIL to me.
KV