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The question of performance rewards for teachers and studentssurfaces from time to time. Do you remember the neighborhood kids whose parents paid for allAs on a report card?
Most of us think that money talks when it comes to motivation.Daniel Pink is telling us it doesn’t and why. Pink writes in Drive that the best way to encouragehigh performance is to allow people to take charge of their own work, toinitiate and create, and to improve. Amazingly, this results in highsatisfaction as well.
Pink’s research is irrefutable. Get rid of the carrots andsticks and give people an environment in which they can create and explore. Weall want to be part of something bigger and greater than we are. Move overDilbert! Look out Charlie Brown! Give students the tools they need - not Summerhill,but Mountainbrook (Google’s headquarters.)
New Hierarchy of Student Needs:
Autonomy: People want to have control over their work.
Mastery: People want to get better at what they do.
Purpose: People want to be part of something that is bigger than they are.
Mastery: People want to get better at what they do.
Purpose: People want to be part of something that is bigger than they are.
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