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jramirez23
12/03/18 1:18:27 PM
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Did you feel like your teachers were generally adept at keeping you accountable for doing your schoolwork? For example, did your teachers use important consequences to motivate you to do the work?

I am interested mainly in middle and high school experiences, because in college, many students already have an intrinsic motivation to do their work.

Also, if you dont mind, say if your schooling was outside of the United States, because I wonder about how the education culture might be different.
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ASlaveObeys
12/03/18 1:28:57 PM
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The motivation I remember was the negative punishment of removing points from your total grade.
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Krazy_Kirby
12/03/18 1:46:05 PM
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had a history teacher in high school talk to me about my grade after the first semester. he said i didn't take good notes (we turned in our notes and he graded them) and i didn't do the homework. i was getting a C though because i passed all the tests (to me if you can pass the tests then you clearly learned about the subject).

ended up not doing the homework still, just took bullet point notes occasionally for some easy points
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Dikitain
12/03/18 2:04:19 PM
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No, because I never did my homework. Granted my grades suffered because of it even though I was still acing all of the tests. As a result, I became one of those weird people who got C's all through high school, but had a 3.5+ for my GPA in college because homework wasn't graded in college.
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InfestedAdam
12/03/18 2:13:21 PM
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jramirez23 posted...
For example, did your teachers use important consequences to motivate you to do the work?

Yes. Not getting a C or lower and as a result a stern talk and maybe a beating from my parents was enough of an incentive to maintain a B average. I recall my teachers put weight on almost everything, attendance, homework, projects, and exams and personally I wasn't against any of those being used toward my final grade.
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shadowsword87
12/03/18 2:15:27 PM
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I did my homework like a good boy so it never really mattered for me.
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Smarkil
12/03/18 4:54:57 PM
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What could a teacher do to motivate you besides giving you a grade? Kids are idiots. I was one of those idiots.
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Llanthana
12/03/18 5:24:21 PM
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Smarkil posted...
What could a teacher do to motivate you besides giving you a grade? Kids are idiots. I was one of those idiots.


This basically.
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Sarcasthma
12/03/18 5:25:57 PM
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ASlaveObeys posted...
The motivation I remember was the negative punishment of removing points from your total grade.

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Lokarin
12/03/18 5:26:41 PM
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I never required motivation, I always finished the coursework in class while everyone else goofed off.
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InfestedAdam
12/03/18 5:38:06 PM
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I think another question might be what motivation could parents give to get their children to care about their grades/future.

Depending on the policies in place and whatnot, to some teachers it is just a job and they won't care what their students end up as. Maybe it was because I took AP and Honor classes so my teachers enjoyed teaching our classes more cause they knew we chose to be there to learn. It's weird because I'm told one of my AP teachers almost treated her non-AP students like trash.

Of course given the type of students in the non-AP/Honor classes, I don't exactly blame her. I took non-AP Economics mostly because I didn't need the AP version at that point and bloody hell it was like pulling teeth trying to get some of my fellow classmates to participate in group projects.
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