While extrinsic motivation is a temporary remedy to encourage students inside and outside of the classroom, it is fairly limited and should not be considered a long term solution. The carrot at the end of the stick and the Sawyer Effect both inhibit a student's drive to succeed as a) the reward for success loses its impact due to over exposure, and b) the cognitive link between work and an activity upend the same amount of pleasure it once had administered to a student(s). Intrinsic motivation such as drawing meaning from a subject material or developing a mastery of the subject material is a far stronger motivating force and is ostensibly unlimited. I plan on incorporating this inside of my own classroom by using real world example and thereby mapping the curriculum onto reality, as well as appropriating other subjects to broaden interest in what is being taught.
