Through out this reading, one of the statements that stood out is where it says that students who are intrinsically motivated are more likely to like or enjoy the work that they are completing in school. Intrinsic motivation is defined as feeling competent and autonomous. This means that the students probably feel a sense of comfortability with the work that is presented to them and complete it because it brings a sense of enjoyment. These are also the types of students that are not doing the work for a specific goal because doing it is the reward. 

This differs from the goals of the extrinsically motivated students because they are mostly completing the work in order to receive something tangible. This can consist of mostly completing work successfully for the benefit of good grades or the approval of their parents. This doesn’t necessarily mean that extrinsically motivated students perform worse than intrinsically motivated students. The skills that intrinsically motivated students gain tend to stay with them more than extrinsically motivated students because they are learning to expand their mind. As a teacher, I feel as though I would want my students to be both intrinsically and extrinsically motivated so that they are able to take advantage of both rewards of learning. This will allow students to be open to learning and be proud of their accomplishments. 

Something else that resonated with me through this reading is where it talks about mastery and performance goals. Mastery goals are defined as a student’s ability to show that they have gained new skills whereas performance goals are measured by their ability to complete tasks. These can be seen as two very different things because some students want to show that they have attained new skills by mastering these challenges whereas others want to show that they are able to perform up to par with everyone else. Performance goals can be seen as more of a way for students showcase their skills it doesn't seem as though they have low abilities even if they haven't fully mastered it. I feel as though students should be more inclined to master their goals so that they are able to take those skills with them in the future rather than only showing that you can use the skills in a performance assessment. 

Teacher expectations of a student’s performance are also an important part of how they will perform. The knowledge of how the students did prior to being in their classes should help to drive a teachers intended expectation. If a teacher sees that a student performed well in the past, they should be able to hod those students to that expectation. If struggling students did not do well prior to being in a new teachers class, they should not be given up on. Instead, the teacher should pull information from the previous accomplishments of that student in order to create new expectations. I feel as though this analogy should be used in order to evaluate all students because students should not be valued any lower than than they already are. Teachers should do their best and motivate their students wherever they are academically in order to keep building on to their success. 

Goal setting is also a great way of ensuring that students get to where they need to be. Short term can be better than long term in the sense that the goals are more proximal. This means that the goals are not to hard or easy, but are something that can be achieved within a short amount of time if there is a lot of effort put into it. As a teacher, I would try to help my students set a lot of short term goals that could eventually lead into a long term goal so that they are able to see their successes along the way and build off of their efforts.