Marvin Marshall, Ed.D.
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Dr.
Marvin Marshall—an American educator,
writer, and lecturer—is widely know for his
program on discipline and learning, his
landmark book,
Discipline Without
Stress® Punishments or Rewards - How
Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility
& Learning,
and his presentations about his
multiple-award winning book,
Parenting Without
Stress®
- How to Raise Responsible Kids While
Keeping a Life of Your Own.
He has
founded a public charity to supply books at
no charge to every teacher of any school in
the U.S.A. that applies to use his
totally noncoercive (but not permissive)
approach. Applications are available at the
link
charity assisting schools.
He has
presented to government agencies,
universities, associations, school
districts, and schools in 44 of the United
States, in 16 countries, and on 5
continents. He has a worldwide audience of
over 15,000 subscribers to his free
monthly newsletter, "Promoting
Responsibility & Learning."
His
approach stemmed from his acquiring
knowledge about youth as a parent; a
recreation director and camp counselor; a
classroom teacher at the elementary, middle,
and high school levels; a middle and high
school counselor; an assistant principal of
both supervision and control and curriculum
and instruction; an elementary and high
school principal; district director of
education; and as a certificate holder from
the William Glasser Institute.
His system motivates young people to want
to behave responsibly and to be
motivated to put forth effort in learning.
His approach relies on internal motivation,
rather than on external approaches of
manipulation by using rewards and employing
coercion in the form of threats or
punishments. A prime reason is that
internal motivation is more effective in
changing behavior than any external
approach.
His approach is based on the simple fact of
life that a person can be controlled
by another person or organization but only
can be changed by the actual person.
This understanding that only individuals can
change themselves is critical in influencing
others.
His approach is used in homes, schools, and
organizations dealing with young people in urban, suburban, and
rural areas around the world.
