Extrinsic Observation

The idea of humanistic perspectives on learning is extremely prevalent in my first grade classroom taught by Nicole Mckelar. In first grade, there is a curriculum that is needed to be followed, but there is so much more than just curriculum that Mrs. Mckelar teaches to these young minds, and the most important thing that she teaches is how to be a better person. There has never been a time in her classroom that children have gotten in trouble for not understanding or completing a task, but she has gotten very angry about students misbehaving and disrespecting others. For example, Britney and Chelsea were cleaning up their toys and Britney grabbed the blocks right out of Chelsea’s hands and Chelsea yelled at Britney. In response, Mrs. Mckelar …show more content…
Mckelar uses extrinsic motivations to solidify intrinsic motivations in her students. Using the example before, these two girls now have an extrinsic motivation to respect one another, no matter what situation they are put in, so they will not have to be put in timeout. Even though she puts this extrinsic motivation on her students, this will set a fire in the students to create more of an intrinsic motivation in their hearts. Maybe at that very moment, Britney and Chelsea only view being respectful to one another as a mean in order to keep themselves out of trouble, eventually, these motives will turn into motives that control their lives and they will want to be respectful to one another because they want to be …show more content…
He is a fantastic child, but it is obvious that he has self-esteem issues in his life. He is often right in what he does, but he always needs to ask me if what he is doing is okay, or right because he cannot just do things for himself. Every time I walk by, he always looks at me like he is in trouble, but he never is. Along with having self-esteem problems, he also has self-actualization problems because he has not self-esteem. He canter look at what he did or who he is, and believe that it is okay, he always needs someone else to do that for him. It is sad, but Johnny definitely has self-actualization problems because of his low