GLASSER + MOTIVATORS

What does Glasser suggests motivates students to learn?

Choice Theory posits that behavior is central to our existence and is driven by five genetically driven needs:

Survival (food, clothing, shelter, breathing, personal safety and others)
Belonging/connecting/love
Power
Freedom
Fun

Choice Theory posits the existence of a "Quality World" in which, starting at birth and continuing throughout our lives, we place those things that we highly value: primarily the people who are important to us, things we prize, and systems of belief, i.e. religion, cultural values, etc.

Glasser also posits a "Comparing Place" in which we compare the world we experience with our Quality World. We behave to achieve as best we can a real world experience consonant with our Quality World.

Behavior ("Total Behavior" in Glasser's terms) is made up of these four components:

acting
thinking
feeling
physiology

Glasser suggests that we have considerable control or choice over the first two of these, and little ability to directly choose the latter two. As these four components are closely intertwined, the choices we make in our thinking and acting greatly affect our feeling and physiology.