Alfie Kohn and the Elementary School Classroom
Hello fellow Loonies (our school is Loon Lake so we call ourselves Loonies)! As we complete our first year with our new junior kindergarten program, I wanted to share some ideas and theories from a scholar named Alfie Kohn that I feel relate to our elementary school learners. My hope is that some of his ideas and theories may help you in your own classroom and with your own students. I believe we need to take a hard look at what we are doing in the classroom and make sure we are doing everything we can to help our students become the most successful learners they can be. Kohn was born in 1957 in Miami Beach, Florida and attended Brown University for his bachelors degree and The University of Chicago for his masters. He is an American author and also does lectures on topics such as education, parenting, and human behavior. I like reading about Alfie Kohn because he challenges education theories and practices and is not afraid to say something. Much of what he believes/questions in schoo...