t an effective teacher should not be a traditional manager, but should strive to be a modern manager. A modern manager spends the majority of their time structuring the workplace [classroom] to make it more satisfying for their workers [students]. Satisfied workers [students] are much more productive (Glasser,1986). Glasser goes on to support this idea by stating that a teacher as a modern manager must empower their students to learn. "Teachers who are well-prepared and enthusiastic about their subjects and are able to convey their enthusiasm to their students are likely to increase the students interest in the material"("Practitioner,"1987, p.2). This practice may appear to be simple to convey on the surface, but teachers are constantly faced with controlling reward structures, deadlines, constraints, surveillance, and external evaluations. These are all previously cited undermining factors of intrinsic motivation (Deci and Ryan, 1981).The Roles of the Administration and Community"When administrators are more autonomy-oriented, they provide teachers with opportunities to try new things, to teach in their own ways, to choose optimal challenges, the teachers seem to be more intrinsically motivated" (Deci and Ryan, 1981, p. 15). Teachers need administrators who respond to their initiations and support their practicing methods to remain intrinsically motivated in the same way that students need teachers to respond to their initiations and mastery attempts to remain enthusiastic about learning (Deci and Ryan, 1981). School administrators, and the community in general, need to be supportive of teachers efforts to try new things, to respond to the challenges, and to teach according to their preferred methods. "Deci and Ryan propose that if the climate of the educational system were more informational and autonomy-oriented in nature, this would foster teachers intrinsic motivation for teaching. In turn, teachers would be better able to foster...
