{"id":2506,"date":"2019-09-17T20:19:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/edt431-531\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2019-09-19T17:32:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T21:32:31","slug":"motivation-it-comes-from-within-not-from-a-report-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/2019\/09\/motivation-it-comes-from-within-not-from-a-report-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivation: It comes from within, not from a report card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When dealing with anyone where you are seen as an authority figure can be difficult, especially if the people you are dealing with are teenagers. In school, encouraging students to complete work and to enjoy doing is difficult when adolescents today given millions of other things to give their attention to. Thats why we as teachers need to rely on a student’s own intrinsic motivation for them to succeed in school. Each person on Earth has their own intrinsic motivation that keeps them going in everyday life and tasks. Unlocking this motivation is explored by Daniel Pink in his revolutionary book DRIVE!<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pink argues that there are two types of people in the world: Type I and Type X. Type X is the type of student school is designed for. Here outside motivators such as grades, approval by a teacher, class rank, ACT test scores etc all encourage the Type X to succeed. This is the model most people are used to and this is the model society has trained all of us to act in. Most people describe it as the carrot and the stick. If you work hard, you will be rewarded, but if you slack off you will be punished. But this type of motivation only goes so far. Eventually, these rewards stop being meaningful to the student and their motivation begins to dwindle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, the second type of person, the Type I, is the type of person we want our students to become. Type I students are fueled by their own intrinsic desires to learn and grow as a person. Pink argues that everyone starts off as this but society warps them into a Type X. In the beginning, children ask thousands of questions. Where do babied come from? Why is the sky blue? Why does Santa use reindeer instead of horses? But as they grow up and enter school, these questions disappear. But as science teachers, we want our students to ask as many questions as possible! Therefore, it’s our job to begin to push our students out of extrinsic motivations and into their own mind for inspiration. This ted talk shows the differences between how an intrinsic and extrinsic classroom can effect a student’s future<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In order to begin to encourage intrinsic motivation we need to give students opportunities for them to engage with their intrinsic motivators some ways to do this include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n