{"id":202,"date":"2017-09-28T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/edt431-531\/?p=202"},"modified":"2017-09-28T14:36:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T18:36:44","slug":"business-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/2017\/09\/business-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The Business of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-203\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.miamioh.edu\/edt431-531\/files\/2017\/09\/images.jpeg?resize=217%2C232\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s business industry is pretty uniform. Workers come in to the office at 8 A.M. and leave at 5 P.M. like clock work. There is very little room for creativity and personal growth. School is pretty similar. Teachers are supposed to teacher a specific way and students are supposed to learn from that way from 8 A.M. to 3 P.M. Don&#8217;t get me started on how school starts too early (let me sleep in at some point in my life, please), but there is still a huge problem on how schools are run like a factory.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Extrinsic Rewards<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>What are they?\n<ul>\n<li>Rewards that are tangible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>How are they used in schools?\n<ul>\n<li>Stickers, grades, reward tickets, gift cards, homework passes, and other things like this<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What is the issue?\n<ul>\n<li>When we give students extrinsic rewards, they might always expect it. I know in my personal educational career I study for a test because I know I want the good grade which is an extrinsic reward. Students might also work harder if they know there is candy if they &#8220;win.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>When a classroom runs fully on extrinsic rewards, students may not fully absorb the information they are getting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Intrinsic Rewards<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>What are they?\n<ul>\n<li>Rewards that are not necessarily tangible, but more related to emotion<\/li>\n<li>Pride in a task<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>How are they used in schools?\n<ul>\n<li>Giving students well timed praise about improvement and other great things<\/li>\n<li>Students own pride in doing well on something<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What is the issue?\n<ul>\n<li>Issues can arise when verbal praise is about &#8220;being smart&#8221; or things like that<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>So, which one is better?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It depends. If the task is repetitive or boring, you might want to rely on extrinsic rewards. The extrinsic reward, like candy, will help them power through the task. Overall, intrinsic rewards are better because they help foster. When students do well on something, they can feel pride. They remember that sense of pride and work on other tasks to be able to feel that again.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Hb-IRNh9WXo\/TERFW9OudjI\/AAAAAAAAAxU\/GkBMExcigeI\/s1600\/Motivation.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Autonomy<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>What is autonomy?\n<ul>\n<li>Leaving people to do what they want<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>How can we use this in the classroom?\n<ul>\n<li>By letting our students be more creative.<\/li>\n<li>Let them find a topic within the unit and let them role with it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>But what about standards and teaching everything?\n<ul>\n<li>You can do it. Students will learn the needed information even if they focus in on something they love.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ladybugs, Planarian, superworms and isopods, oh my! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/apbio?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#apbio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/doingislearning?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#doingislearning<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/animalbehavior?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#animalbehavior<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eX6Sk8pgjz\">pic.twitter.com\/eX6Sk8pgjz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Corey Mullins (@BioTeachMullins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BioTeachMullins\/status\/799675124530237440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Type I Behavior<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>In Daniel Pink&#8217;s book,\u00a0<em>Drive<\/em>, he discusses a type of behavior that is fully centered in autonomy. He calls it Type I behavior. This behavior can only be fully met when a person has complete autonomy over their task, their time, their technique, and their team. This is something that is often overlooked in schools today. Many teachers tell students what to do, when to do it, when it&#8217;s due, and how to do it. When you give students more freedom on what they&#8217;re doing, they are more likely to want to learn and are more likely to retain it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rocket construction day 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Jlvs7HFAT\">pic.twitter.com\/5Jlvs7HFAT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Caitlin Holmes (@hoooolmeslaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hoooolmeslaw\/status\/864085701150871552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Reaching Mastery and Grit<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Can students reach mastery while utilizing autonomy? Of course! When students are more engaged in their learning because it is something they are interested in, they are more likely to want to try and become a master in that subject. The thing with mastery is, you never can reach it. You can get closer and closer, but you can never fully reach it. It is like an asymptote. You never fully reach the line. In this process, you discover mastery takes grit. You have to understand that you can never reach the peak, accept that, and keep pushing to learn more than you did before. The students who have more grit, are more likely to keep pushing to learn. This also has to do with how interested the students are in the topic they are studying. They are more likely to use their grit on something they think is interesting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Angela Lee Duckworth: Grit: The power of passion and perseverance\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Lesson Plan: Building Cladograms<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Show students the picture of the Pokemon cladogram and talk to them about how you can see these kinds of relationships in real animals.<\/li>\n<li>Teach students about cladograms and how they are built. This can be done with lecture or have them work in teams to discover how this is done by doing readings or other research<\/li>\n<li>Have each group present their findings briefly and address any misconceptions or missing information<\/li>\n<li>Have each student write down 10 of their favorite animals on a sheet of paper<\/li>\n<li>Tell them they are to make a cladogram out of the ten animals they selected without doing any research. This is to be based on characteristics they can visibly see<\/li>\n<li>After they complete this, tell them to pick their top 5 animals and do further research on them<\/li>\n<li>With their new research, have them create a new cladogram using traits that distinguish them<\/li>\n<li>This activity lets students learn more about their favorite animals and helps them learn about how traits can be used to distinguish relationships between species.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-_B75eXpqDaE\/V2mqt7s5qfI\/AAAAAAAAABQ\/rW0ndJSd-zEXzNw05kyzZjhqRVo5WUy-QCLcB\/s1600\/Cladogram.jpg?ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(yes, I still play pokemon go)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Today&#8217;s business industry is pretty uniform. Workers come in to the office at 8 A.M. and leave at 5 P.M. like clock work. 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