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Strategies That Promote Student Engagement: Unleashing the Desire to Learn

Autor Ernestine G. Riggs, Cheryl R. Gholar
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 sep 2008
Strategies That Promote Student Engagement: Unleashing the Desire to Learn offers practical lessons for the classroom that teach students the importance of education in their everyday lives. This resource includes strategies that can be used across the content areas to encourage students to become self-motivated learners. Using the concept of conation - the internal drive that pushes one beyond ordinary expectations and accomplishments - the authors demonstrate how teachers can inspire their students to strive for excellence inside and outside of the classroom. This revised edition includes:
- Updated research
- Additional grade-specific instructional activities
- Suggestions for assessment
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412963190
ISBN-10: 1412963192
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

"This book is truly relevant to any educator genuinely interested in maximizing a student's potential. The authors provide lessons at the end of each chapter that cross many segments of the curriculum."
"The authors are clearly passionate about the need to uncover and build upon the students’ desire and motivation to learn."
"A captivating topic for teachers, as we all have students who are capable and yet choose not to learn."

Cuprins

Foreword by Raymond F. Morgan
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
1. Understanding Conation
Where Does the Will to Live, Learn, and Succeed Reside?
What Is Conation?
How Is Conation Different From Extrinsic Motivation?
What Is Conative Intelligence (CI)?
2. Captivate, Connect, and Cultivate: Creating Lessons That Promote Learning
Conative Strategies for Engaging Learners
Designing Lessons That Reach the Heart of Learning
Using Teaching Strategies Effectively in the Conative Domain
Increasing Student Self-Efficacy With Choice
Achieving High Performance in Spite of the Odds
Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies
3. Where Learning Lives: Instructional Activities That Engage Students
What Is Learning?
What Is Courage?
Gholar and Riggs? Conative Taxonomy
Conation and Character Building: The Strength and Spirit of Learning
What Is Character?
Character Development
When Conation, Courage, and Character Become One
Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies
4. An Invitation to Learn: Awakening and Motivating Your Classroom
Inviting Success
Connecting to Students? Lives Outside of School
Ensuring the Academic Success of Adolescents
Conation Moves the Heart of a Teacher
The Origins of Success and Failure
Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies
5. For All of Them, I Teach: Reflecting on Your Teaching Philosophy
Authentic Teaching in the Conative Domain
Using Diverse Teaching Styles
Using STARS to Support the Will to Learn
Implementing the Four I?s of Teacher Leadership
Promoting Conation Schoolwide
Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies
6. The Bridge Between the Desire to Achieve and Reality: Putting It All Together
The Will
The Bridge Metaphor
Insights Regarding Conation: Next Steps
Resources
Lexicon of Two Hundred Words, Thoughts, Phrases, Attitudes, and Expectations That Build Conative Connections
Teaching to the Test: A Reflection
References
Index

Notă biografică

Ernestine G. Riggs is an associate professor at Loyola University Chicago. She has been involved in the field of education for more than 40 years and has a diverse background in teaching and administration. Riggs was selected as one of the Outstanding Elementary Teachers of America by the United States Department of Defense Overseas Schools in 1974. She is the coauthor of Beyond Rhetoric and Rainbows: A Journey to the Place Where Learning Lives, Helping Middle and High School Readers: Teaching and Learning Strategies Across the Curriculum, and several journal articles. She is also co-featured in the video Ensuring Success for ¿Low Yield¿ Students: Building Lives and Molding Futures. In the summer of 2007, Riggs was invited to present a précis of the research on conation at the prestigious Oxford Round Table in Oxford, England. Riggs is a frequent presenter at local, district, national, and international conferences.

Descriere

Featuring updated research, grade-specific individual and group activities, and suggestions for assessment, this resource outlines how teachers can inspire their students to become self-motivated learners.