The third petri dish. The third petri dish faced a challenge. Because of those challenges, those amoebae cultures were intrinsically motivated to find ways to survive. Our students must be given the opportunities to understand how they are intrinsically motivated. This must start in the elementary schools so that the secondary teachers do not have to teach students who expect extrinsic motivators.
Educators have various options in intrinsically motivating students.
While students need guidelines, they also need the flexibility of making choices. A Teacher's Handbook by Elaine McClanahan and Carolyn Wicks, shares how to make students stockholders in the classroom. By making them stockholders, students are intrinsically motivated to promote positive behaviors. They have choices of their rules and consequences. Expectations are agreed upon by everyone and the teacher acts as a facilitator of the knowledge that is retained by the students.