James S. Payne

Inspiring Kids to Learn: The Token Economy Playbook helps teachers develop programs that inspire students to learn. Teachers learn how to help students focus their attention, minimize discipline issues, and build a classroom culture that leads to self-actualization.The text explains what constitutes a successful token economy, how to establish one in the classroom, and how to transition it to a currency-based system. Readers study a day-by-day plan for setting up goods, services, and banking in a classroom system. They gain strategies for keeping the economy on track, and lastly they come to recognize the levels of student development that naturally occur when a currency-based system is implemented.The book effectively combines the developmental and directive approaches to teaching children. A complete guide to everything professionals need to know to build an education engine, fire it up, and help children learn, achieve, and grow, Inspiring Kids to Learn: The Token Economy Playbook can be used in courses on education, teacher education, and educational psychology.