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What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Motivation

Autor Donna E. Walker Tileston
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iun 2010
Powerful, brain-friendly strategies for motivating, challenging, and celebrating your students! This second edition is filled with practices for motivating even the most at-risk and reluctant students. Informed by current research on the plasticity of the brain and new insights on the relationship between culture and student motivation, the book features an extended classroom example of motivational techniques in action and vocabulary pre- and post-tests for teachers and details how: Technology influences the brain and motivation Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are related to celebrations and rewards Specific strategies can motivate students to begin and finish a task Teachers can foster students' positive self-talk and on-task behaviors
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412971768
ISBN-10: 1412971764
Pagini: 136
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

"This book is user friendly, informative, creative, and current in today’s society."
"Teachers can often get frustrated when they don't think their students care. This book gives the teacher a way to take ownership of the situation rather than blame the students."
"The author addresses the number one issue in the classroom today. This book is full of exciting and applicable information on how to motivate today’s learners."

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Vocabulary Pretest
1. What Is Motivation and Why Does It Matter So Much?
What Is Motivation?
Build Intrinsic Motivation
What Is Extrinsic Motivation?
The Difference Between Rewards and Celebrations
2. What Are the Roots of Motivation?
Understanding the Mental Processes
The Self-System
The Metacognitive System
The Cognitive System
3. Motivation to Begin a Lesson or Task
Getting the Brain's Attention
The Role of Self-Attributes
The Role of the Self and Others
The Role of the Student's Perception of the Nature of the World
How Climate Affects Motivation
The Relationship Between Importance and Motivation
Why Is Efficacy Important to Motivation?
4. How Do We Encourage Students to Finish the Task?
Activiating the Metacognitive System
What About Minor Off-Task Behavior?
5. A Model for Developing Motivation in the Classroom
Attitudes Toward and Perceptions of the Learning
Learning States and Discipline Problems
What Ms. Walker Did to Reach Diverse Learners
6. A Model for Facilitating Motivation
A Model for Turning on the Motivation Within
Vocabulary Summary
Student at Risk
Celebrations
Climate
Contextualization
Extrinsic Motivation
Vocabulary Posttest
Vocabulary Pretest and Posttest Answer Key
References
Index

Notă biografică

Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donnäs publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin¿s bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com


Descriere

Informed by new research on the brain's plasticity and new insights on how culture relates to student motivation, this resource focuses on engaging even the most reluctant students!