Priceless.When I was a kid we got free Pizza Hut pizza for reading books.
Then again...I did turn in to a fat anti-social adult. So maybe these anti-McDonalds parents have the right idea...
If you want to motivate students, turn them against each other in the classroom. Make them want to be at the top of the class. I don't care if you have a 99%. If another student has 100%, you better have 101%, or else you're the worst student EVER. Comparing students to each other works fairly well.
I hate it when teachers use the "end up flipping burgers" line. Is that SUCH a bad job? Someone has to do it. I don't like implying that everyone working at McDonalds is a failure at life. :-/
One of those teachers won a pizza party every year for bringing in the most Campbell soup labels/boxtops for education of any other class in school, because she would give points to the teams when they brought them in.
I hate it when teachers use the "end up flipping burgers" line. Is that SUCH a bad job? Someone has to do it. I don't like implying that everyone working at McDonalds is a failure at life. :-/
It does for the students who are already motivated to achieve or are at a decent grade level (as in As and Bs), but the kids who are already far behind and/or struggling won't necessarily see it as a way to succeed, but rather reinforce their low self-esteem and further distance them from education.If you want to motivate students, turn them against each other in the classroom. Make them want to be at the top of the class. I don't care if you have a 99%. If another student has 100%, you better have 101%, or else you're the worst student EVER. Comparing students to each other works fairly well.
That's what my teachers did, anyway.
Yeah, I had a few teachers who would do this by separating the class into different teams and running the class almost like a game show. It's very effective! And fun. <cut for irrelevance to reply>.
The other one (fourth grade) used embarrassment as a tactic, too. She was really fun and organized all these games for us to play.... But she let students pick teams. So if you sucked at math, you got picked last. D:
It does for the students who are already motivated to achieve or are at a decent grade level (as in As and Bs), but the kids who are already far behind and/or struggling won't necessarily see it as a way to succeed, but rather reinforce their low self-esteem and further distance them from education.
Ahh, I should have started what I said with some. In my experience in the classroom as a student and as an educator generally the kids doing well continued to do well, and the ones falling behind fell further behind. Definitely not the same always, but I think you're right that a lot of kids would do better without such tactics. It makes a competition out of what should be a personalized matter.From experience, that's false. I started out as an A student, but after encountering the tactics I stated above (out of a very dark sense of humor, mind you) my grades plummeted to C's because the teachers and students made/make me feel like a worthless piece of shit. Without them, I'd be in a much better place right now. Isn't education grand? I'd think not.
I loved my free pizza hut. At least one night a month I didn't have to eat all that healthy crap my mom made.