motivation from within - moving away from points, prizes, and pizza parties
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Motivation
from Within
Moving Away From
Points, Prizes, and
Pizza Parties
Chris Wejrwww.chriswejr.com
@chriswejr
Fort Nelson School District
February Conference
February 27, 2015
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1. I can describe the long term concerns that can result from incentives for learning.
2. I can describe ways to create the conditions for more intrinsic, long term motivation in students.
3. I can describe the long term concerns with short term punishments to students.
4. I can start to analyze behaviour to determine the unmet need and/or lagging skills.
Learning Intentions
Are we speaking the same language
when we say “rewards”?
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10 years ago, I LOVED using rewards
“We cannot motivate others… we can only work to
create the conditions for people to motivate themselves.”
--
Edward Deci and Richard RyanImage: http://flic.kr/p/8zWLAj
Intrinsic/Internal
Extrinsic/External
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Daniel Pink
Autonomy – Mastery - Purpose
Clip adapted from http://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc
Got Rewards?
PROS
CONS
Be HARD on content…
SOFT on people
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Edward Deci and Richard RyanUsing rewards to motivate children may indeed control their
behavior in some immediate sense, but they are likely to have
negative consequences in terms of the children’s subsequent
interest, persistence, and preferences for challenge. (Deci
and Ryan)
Controlling people’s behavior with reward contingencies
undermines their intrinsic motivation…(Deci and Ryan)
Children who were rewarded for doing discrimination-
learning tasks learned less well and made more errors than
did children who were not rewarded (Spence & Dunton)
…extrinsic incentives can, by undermining self-perceived
altruism, decrease intrinsic motivation to help others.
(Batson)Research From Sansome et al http://amzn.to/1LGbNIH
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My issues with rewards in school...
Incentives Work…
… in the short term
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Sitcom Motivation
Big Bang Theory http://youtu.be/qy_mIEnnlF4 The Office http://youtu.be/G59KY7ek8Rk
You caught me being good.Can I get my prize now?
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Kids get good at
getting caught…
being good.
“People use rewards expecting to gain the benefit of increasing another person’s
motivation and behaviour, but in so doing, they often incur the unintentional and
hidden cost of undermining that person’s intrinsic motivation toward the activity”
-- Jonmarshall Reeve
If… Then
vs
First… Then
"Extrinsic rewards have a negative impact
[on learning] because they undermine people’s taking
responsibility for motivating and regulating
themselves" Edward Deci
CC Image from Sarah Sosiak
So what?Why is this research important?
Now what?What do we DO now?
Discuss in your groups. Share.
Relationships
Growth Mindset
Leadership
Criteria &
Feedback
Strengths &
Interests
Voice & Choice
Creating
The Conditions
Strengths &
Interests
“We must guide our children toward recognition and understanding of their strengths.”
-- Jenifer Fox
-- Jenifer FoxCC Image: http://flic.kr/p/bhvabR
Voice & Choice
CHOICES
Passion Projects
Innovation Days
Inquiry
Project-Based
Learning
Genius Hour
Outdoor Education
Blended Learning
MakerEd
Students do not want learning
made easy, they want it to
mean something.
They want to feel something,
to be moved by what they
learn.
They want to connect deeply
with things that matter and
they want the chance to
make a difference.
State of FLOW.
Canadian Education Association
Relationships
Can every learner name at least two adults in
the building who believe he or she will be a
success in life? Judy Halbert, Linda Kaser
Growth Mindset
Praise effort rather than ability.
Focus on process.
Criteria &
Feedback
Clear Criteria
Do our studens know
“what good looks like”?
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[Descriptive] feedback is the single
most powerful thing we can use to
impact student learning
-- John Hattie
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Leadership
How can we create opportunities for
students to lead?
REFLECT:
What are 2-3 things YOU can DO to help
create the conditions for students to
motivate themselves?
Relationships
Growth Mindset
Leadership
Criteria &
Feedback
Strengths &
Interests
Voice & Choice
Children and altruism…
let’s not mess this
up.
http://youtu.be/aS-QLB8ELyk
“It’s good to be good…
rewards undermine this”Kimberly Schonert-
Reichl
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Giving credit
to the
right factors
A Culture of Reading Without Points, Prizes, or Pizza Parties
5 Teachers,Collaborative Time, Teacher Autonomy,
1 Goal
A Love
of Reading
Promoting Books
For
Kids
Encouraging a Love of Books
• VIP Readers• Interest Inventories
• Book Trailers• Book Shopping• FVRL Techno
Petting Zoo• Buddy Reading
• Book Swap• Book Character
Dress-Up• School Wide
Read-Ins
Doing the right thing... just because it is the right thing to do.
Barbara Coloroso
Zero
Tolerance?
"The school discipline program is not working for the kids who aren't doing well and is not
needed by the kids who are." -- Dr. Ross
Greene
What are the unmet needs
and/or lagging skills?
The kids who
need the most
LOVE will often
ask for it in the
most unloving
ways.~ unknown
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Clear expectations
Do our students
know what
“good behaviour looks like”?
Creating the Conditions:
Student Discipline
Logical Consequences• Related
• Respectful
• Reasonable
Natural Consequences
RESTITUTION
Give them a chance to make it right
Justin’s Story
How do we best support our students
through teaching and discipline?
To create the condition for our students to
motivate themselves, we need to:
STOP doing
doing
START doing
Must Reads for Parents/Educators
DriveDaniel Pink
Lost at SchoolDr. Ross Greene
Punished by Rewards
Alfie Kohn
MindsetCarol Dweck
