Chapter 2 Seven Deadly Flaws

Grades in general can be the carrot and stick model. In one of my math classes my freshman year of high school the students all wanted A’s in the class. The teacher did not give formulas for the test and many students made note cards with the formulas on it and put it in their calculator. I have seen a teacher making a sticker chart with categories be helpful for a young student that did not know how to behave in class. The teacher talked over why she did or did not get a sticker and the girl did better than before she had the chart. This was only useful because the girl wanted the stickers. Like Kimberly mentioned in motivation 2.0 the reward has to fit the student. If the student likes to read like Kimberly said it works but if they don’t then they do not have any incentive to stay on task to finish. Another flaw is carrot and stick model can extinguish intrinsic motivation. I saw this in my internship when classes got free time when the class received a certain amount of complements from other teachers. This made the students start asking teachers to say good things to their teacher. I like the idea that Pink brings up of “now that” rewards as an alternative. I have had teachers bring cookies when the class did well on a test. It made everyone feel good about how we did and we did not expect it every time.