What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Motivation

Donna E. Walker Tileston

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What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Motivation

What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Motivation

Donna E. Walker Tileston

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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

Critical Reviews

"This book is user friendly, informative, creative, and current in today's society."--Mari Teacher, Fifth-Grade Teacher (9/23/2009 12:00:00 AM)

"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."--Lyneille Meza, Coordinator of Data & Assessment (9/23/2009 12:00:00 AM)

"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."--Gary L. Willhite, Teacher Educator/Associate Professor (9/23/2009 12:00:00 AM)

Publishing Information

Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Pub date: 2010-03-30
Length: 136 pages

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