Dan Pink on Motivation

Watch the full video at http://online.aasa.org. AASA Executive Director Dan Domenech talks to author Daniel Pink about Pink's new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Pink explains that traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think, and internal motivation is the key to high performance. He outlines the implications of his findings for educators in such areas as student engagement and teacher performance pay. Also, don't miss PInk's interview in The School Administrator magazine at http://www.aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=5996

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[ed4wb]

Overall, I'd have to agree with Mr. Pink's take on motivation. My experience in schools however, shows those institutions have a very counterproductive view of motivation. Just like business, they ignore the science.

[ed4wb]

I think Mr. Pink gives schools too much credit for how they understand motivation. In "The Schools Our Children Deserve" by Alfie Kohn, Mr. Kohn devotes a chapter to the issue of motivation ("Getting Motivation Wrong"). In a nutshell, learning, desire to learn, and performance is diminished by use of grades, gold stars, rankings...

Creative task performance goes down when students know they are being graded, precisely the kind of thinking Mr. Pink argues is so important in an era of AbAsAuto.