Chapter 4

I definitely agree with Stasia and Samantha on how this chapter can easily be tied into the classroom. Pink stated “A sense of autonomy has a powerful effect on individual performance and attitude” and I strongly agree with that. When teachers give choices to students it gives students a sense of autonomy, resulting in the students’ school satisfaction and improved performance. In one of my practicums the students are on task and quiet during centers. It was strange to me to see this because I had not seen this in previous practicums.  My practicum teacher gives her student the choice of the order they complete tasks during guided reading groups. As the teacher works with one group the students need to work on the tasks they choose to do during that time and they are responsible to have it done by the end of the day.

Something that caught my attention was the autonomy of team. At one of my jobs we use to have a manager that everyone loved. He was easy going and he didn’t care is you slacked off for a while as long as things were done at the end of the day. He would have our things to do list ready when we arrived and if we got them done then we could just hang out.  The company did not like how he was too friendly to the employees and fired him. Since he has been gone employers don’t stick around as much. People who had been working there for more than ten years quit after meeting the new manager and learned about the “new rules.”