Renee, I agree! Daniel Pink's research on motivation explains . . . "Most of us believe that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is with external rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That’s a mistake, Daniel H. Pink says in, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, his provocative and persuasive new book. The secret to high performance and satisfaction—at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He demonstrates that while carrots and sticks worked successfully in the twentieth century, that’s precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today’s challenges. In Drive, he examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose—and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action. Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward."
Sandra Henry, Ed.D. Middle School Curriculum Coordinator Sioux Falls School District 49-5 201 E. 38th Street Sioux Falls, SD 57105 605-367-7871 605-367-7906 fax sandra.he...@k12.sd.us P BE GREEN Please don't print this e-mail unless really necessary! CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email, including any attachments, contains information which may be privileged, confidential and/or protected from disclosure. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you think you have received this message in error, please email the sender then delete the email from your computer system and destroy any hard copies of the email. If you are not the intended recipient any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. ________________________________________ From: mosaic-bounces+sandra.henry=k12.sd...@literacyworkshop.org [mosaic-bounces+sandra.henry=k12.sd...@literacyworkshop.org] on behalf of Renee [phoenix...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 9:03 AM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group; Phyllis Oliver Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] School wide reading. Disclaimer: This is an opinion. Mine. I know that many schools have competitions of many kinds, and that competition is part of society and that some competition is just good, healthy fun. But I think it's important to think about the message that *some* school competitions send, and to me, a reading competition just goes against my grain. If I were teaching in this school, I would not feel good about being pitted against all other classrooms AND I would find it hard to participate. That's why I suggested a school wide collaboration (ongoing documentation of books and pages read by the whole school), where everyone works together toward a common goal. Our current Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, has pitted schools against schools and teachers against teachers with his stupid Race to the Top program. High stakes tests pit schools against schools and teachers against teachers and students against students. In my classrooms we always kept a running tally of how many books and pages kids read, throughout the year. The end numbers were pretty impressive; frankly, I think they were way more impressive than cafeteria displays of students names who had reached the "Millionaire's Reading Club" or classroom displays of race cars racing along on race tracks made of Accelerated Reading scores. Am I really the only one out there? Does anyone read Alfie Kohn or Daniel Pink? Renee Goularte 20 years teaching, all grades, ELL, at-risk, GATE, multiage, and Art. On Apr 10, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Phyllis Oliver wrote: > At a school where I was reading specialist we used to have > competitions between classes.(We only had one room per grade level.) > We might have 3rd and 4th and 5th and 6th compete for the most AR > points or most pages read. We did this by the month. The losing class > would serve the winning class a treat (such as homemade sundaes or > popcorn with a movie, or pizza) the losing class then served > themselves and all enjoyed the treat. This seemed to work especially > well with 4-6 grades. > Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." ~William Butler Yeats _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
