Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Reward for learning?

Much of the education Of younger people that I've seen is done with coercion, tricking, or giving candy and things like that. As a result teaching them in high school is a problem if there is no reward or some kind of points. Some students will just sit there and do nothing.

This tactic wouldn't work in high school because students are old enough to know you're just saying it. You can't do anything about it if they just don't respond so should we continue with harsher methods? Should we start thinking, "well they're about to be adults, I need to switch tactics, i need to help them to see that learning is for their own good".

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