Becoming a teacher in Wyoming might mean working in more rural, agrarian regions of the state, but these areas are still in need of quality teachers who
find intrinsic reward in helping all of their students receive the education they deserve.
Strong candidates will have 1 - 3 years of consulting, M&A, strategy, or corporate development experience out of a first - tier undergraduate program and
find intrinsic reward in an unstructured environment where individuals define their roles, own their actions and have outsized impact.
Not exact matches
In an article published in the Boston Globe («Studies
Find Reward No Motivator»), Kohn cites several studies done that demonstrated students offered extrinsic
rewards, particularly for creative work and work involving higher - order thinking, were less productive than those students working for
intrinsic rewards.
This is because they
found the puzzles intrinsically interesting — the other group may have also thought this, but the extrinsic
reward reduced their
intrinsic motivation to continue.
The reasons range from the
intrinsic reward of having
found the solution, to getting a good grade, to avoiding punishment,... All of these reasons have a powerful emotional component and failing to recognize these aspects of learning limits the opportunities that educators have for igniting learning.
From a character education perspective, individual plans should be monitored closely so that as students begin to gain control of their emotions and
find more appropriate means for communication, reinforcement moves away from extrinsic
rewards and towards social
rewards, ultimately emphasizing students»
intrinsic satisfaction in being a good citizen of the school and classroom.
Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman write in the book Character Strengths and Virtues that those people with a signature strength of love of learning are confident about their ability to learn, enjoy the process of learning, and
find that the act of learning is its own
intrinsic reward.