Many young students are reward orientated, as we know. If they remains so, then there is a huge challenge for all concerned:
The world does not give rewards because people need them. It gives rewards because it wants something from them. That means that the recipient of the reward has something to offer, and that the offering will be made in a acceptable form.
Despite our protestation to the contrary, the world does not bother much with getting people to comply.
Certainly there are some rewards for compliance per se, but those that do exist (Rating One on car insurance, for example) are often long term, not immediate.
There are basically two responses the world makes to non-compliance:
- punishment, as in demerit points or fines... , or
- marginalisation, e.g., when non-complying people are simply overlooked and or ignored.
This could mean that as well as focusing on enabling a student to be successful in school right now we might also need to be
- projecting forward several years to what is likely to be working best for him/her then
- working out how we can help ensure that he/she will get there
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