I think it was a general consensus we were all intrigued by
the Type I and Type X theory. The employees
at the ROWE work place obviously fall under Type I. I agree that autonomy is what motivated these
employees. For me, this chapter was easy
to relate to the classroom. Replace the
employees with our students and the production rates with students’ performance
rates and you have a perfect equation.
In this chapter, one of the bosses of the ROWE operations even said, “
It’s about creating conditions for people to do their best work.” And “…they
need a lot of autonomy.” It’s as simple
as that. We provide our students with
environments they feel free to work, learn, and grow in, and we give them choice.
This chapter also discussed management. Pink carried over the same ideas to this
section by encouraging autonomy because of its powerful effect on performance
and attitude. Again, this relates
directly to how we can manage our classrooms most effectively. Not only will be able to do that, but we will
have taken society-driven Type X students into Type I’s. And the benefits of that are obvious.
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