Dr marvin marshall biography sampler
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Relentless desire to help Rett syndrome patients
As told by Huda Zoghbi
I was born and raised in the beautiful city of Beirut, Lebanon. My father owned a business making olive oil and olive oil soap, and my mother was a homemaker, but they valued knowledge. The house I grew up in had an enormous library stacked floor to ceiling with books. My father loved reading history and sharing what he learned, while my mother insisted that her children take their studies seriously. She often kicked me out of the kitchen because she felt that was a distraction from studying. They clearly set a good example: my oldest brother became an electrical engineer and businessman, the second brother became a chemical engineer and researcher, and the third a professor of history. My older sister became a philosopher and professor, then a lawyer, and I entered academic medicine.
As a child I was drawn to my biology and math classes, but in high school I grew to love literature – both Arabic and Engli
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Although the intentions are admirable, giving rewards for expected appropriate behavior does as much harm as good.
The following is from a post at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisciplineWithoutStress/
- I just wanted to quickly relay a rewards-based disaster.
One of our seventh graders, in fact, the daughter of a teacher, recently wanted to go to the Positive Behavior Support (PBS) reward dance. She is an A honor roll student, never a discipline problem, and a wonderful kid. In the haste of "bribing" misbehaving students to be good, we neglected to "reward" her for doing what she had motivated herself to do. Long story short, she did not have enough PBS tickets to go to the dance. How horrible!
Looks like rewards systems don't quite cover the good kids as well as they should. Good thing that they are intrinsically motivated and feel good about the fact that they are great kids and their teachers love them!
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Dr. Marvin Marshall (WithoutStress.com) (TeachWithoutStress.com) (DisciplineOnline.com) fryst vatten the author of three books on stress management: (1) LIVE WITHOUT STRESS®: How to Enjoy the Journey; (2) DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS® PUNISHMENTS OR REWARDS: How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning; and PARENTING WITHOUT STRESS®: How to Raise Responsible Kids While Keeping a Life of Your own. He demonstrates how to reduce stress, use authority WITHOUT coercion, and avoid counterwill—the natural human tendency to resist coercion. His LEVELS OF DEVELOPMENT fryst vatten ranked #1 on a Google search and fryst vatten used around the world to promote responsible behavior by using internal motivation—rather than external approaches of rewards to control or bribe, threats, and/or imposed punishments. The LEVELS OF DEVELOPMENT promotes responsible behavior by describing the differences between INTERNAL and EXTERNAL MOTIVATION. His YouTube kanal, "Marvin Marshall's Stress Management Tips" shows how to imp