Motivating Students to Learn

2004

Written specifically for teachers, this book offers a wealth of research-based principles for motivating students to learn within the realities of a classroom learning community.

Author: Jere E. Brophy

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 9780805847727

Category: Education

Page: 418

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Written specifically for teachers, this book offers a wealth of research-based principles for motivating students to learn within the realities of a classroom learning community. Its focus on motivational principles rather than motivational theorists or theories leads naturally into discussions of specific classroom strategies. Throughout the book the author focuses on and expertly synthesizes that portion of the motivational literature that is most relevant to teachers. Key features of this expanded new edition include: *Focus on School and Classroom Realities--The selection and treatment of motivational principles and strategies is constantly tied to the realities of schools (e.g., curriculum goals) and classrooms (e.g., student differences, classroom dynamics). *Integrates Intrinsic and Extrinsic Principles--The author employs an eclectic approach to motivation that shows how to effectively integrate the use of intrinsic and extrinsic strategies. *Covers Expectancy and Value-Related Topics--Full coverage is given to both the expectancy aspects of motivation (attributions, efficacy perceptions, expectations, confidence, etc) and to value-related topics (relevance, meaningfulness, application potential) and to their associated teacher-student dynamics. *New Chapters--Two theories that have spurred much education-related motivational research in recent years (self-determination theory and achievement-goal theory) have been given their own chapters. *Focus on Individual Differences and Problem Learners--Guidelines are provided for adapting motivational principles to group and individual student differences and for doing "repair work" with students who have become discouraged or disaffected learners. *Expanded Topical Coverage--Expanded coverage has been given to several emerging topics, including self-identity concepts, cross-cultural comparisons, situational interest, stereotype threat, and the rediscovery of John Dewey's motivational ideas. *Improved Pedagogy--Chapter and section introductions and summaries provide an unusual degree of continuity across the book, and its second person writing style is more reader friendly than most textbooks. New to this edition are reflection questions at the end of each chapter. This book is appropriate for any course in the undergraduate or graduate teacher education curriculum that is devoted wholly or partly to the study of student motivation.
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Motivating Students to Learn

2014-02-18

This edition features new material on the roles that classroom goal setting, developing students’ interest, and teacher-student and peer relationships play in student motivation.

Author: Kathryn R. Wentzel

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136264146

Category: Education

Page: 302

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Written specifically for teachers, Motivating Students to Learn offers a wealth of research-based principles on the subject of student motivation for use by classroom teachers. Now in its fourth edition, this book discusses specific classroom strategies by tying these principles to the realities of contemporary schools, curriculum goals, and classroom dynamics. The authors lay out effective extrinsic and intrinsic strategies to guide teachers in their day-to-day practice, provide guidelines for adapting to group and individual differences, and discuss ways to reach students who have become discouraged or disaffected learners. This edition features new material on the roles that classroom goal setting, developing students’ interest, and teacher-student and peer relationships play in student motivation. It has been reorganized to address six key questions that combine to explain why students may or may not be motivated to learn. By focusing more closely on the teacher as the motivator, this text presents a wide range of motivational methods to help students see value in the curriculum and lessons taught in the classroom.
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Motivating Students to Learn

2020-09-24

This revised fifth edition features new instructional strategies, summaries of effective interventions, chapters on family/cultural diversity and teacher motivation, and more.

Author: Jere Brophy

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429648137

Category: Education

Page: 380

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Written specifically for teachers in training, Motivating Students to Learn offers a wealth of research-based principles on student motivation for use in the classroom. Positioning the teacher as the decisive motivator, the book is grounded in the realities of contemporary schools, curriculum goals, and peer dynamics. Twelve rich chapters offer extrinsic and intrinsic approaches to guide daily practice, guidelines for adapting to group and individual differences, and ways to reach discouraged or disaffected students. This revised fifth edition features new instructional strategies, summaries of effective interventions, chapters on family/cultural diversity and teacher motivation, and more.
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Powerful Classroom Management Strategies

2000-03-14

Learn to use effective motivation in the classroom and reap the results--increased student learning and decreased management problems for K-12 classrooms.

Author: Paul R. Burden

Publisher: Corwin Press

ISBN: 0761975632

Category: Education

Page: 160

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Learn to use effective motivation in the classroom and reap the results--increased student learning and decreased management problems for K-12 classrooms.
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What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Motivation

2010-03-30

This essential guide is for classroom teachers who work with diverse learners-English language, urban, and underprivileged-to help close the achievement gap.

Author: Donna Walker Tileston

Publisher: Corwin Press

ISBN: 9781412971768

Category: Education

Page: 110

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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!
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Motivating Defiant and Disruptive Students to Learn

2012-01-17

This collection of behavior management strategies includes easy-to-implement methods that engage students reignite your love of teaching as you reap the rewards of a well-managed classroom.

Author: Rich Korb

Publisher: Corwin Press

ISBN: 9781452205786

Category: Education

Page: 167

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This collection of behavior management strategies includes easy-to-implement methods that engage students reignite your love of teaching as you reap the rewards of a well-managed classroom.
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Motivating Students Who Don t Care

2009-05-01

This book is a comprehensive and practical guide for reconnecting with discouraged students and reawakening their excitement and enthusiasm for learning.

Author: Allen Mendler

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

ISBN: 9781934009888

Category: Education

Page: 224

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This book is a comprehensive and practical guide for reconnecting with discouraged students and reawakening their excitement and enthusiasm for learning. With proven strategies from the classroom, Dr. Mendler identifies five effective processes you can use to reawaken motivation in students who aren’t prepared, don’t care, and won’t work. These processes include emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power, building relationships, and expressing enthusiasm.
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The Motivated Student

2009

Whether at the elementary or high school level, this book will make you think about who your students really are and help you develop a culture of inquiry, trust, and engagement that will release each child's enthusiasm for learning.

Author: Robert A. Sullo

Publisher: ASCD

ISBN: 9781416608103

Category: Education

Page: 177

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Research has shown time and again that the traditional reward-punishment model does nothing to boost student achievement. In The Motivated Student: Unlocking the Enthusiasm for Learning, veteran educator Bob Sullo suggests a different approach: cultivating students' inner drive to learn by addressing their essential psychological needs. Drawing from in-depth interviews with successful educators, counselors, and administrators and a careful analysis of the research on classroom motivation, Sullo provides an indispensable blueprint for ensuring that students in grades 4-12 are engaged in the classroom. He offers practical, clear-cut strategies for getting students focused and ready to learn by Eliminating external rewards for learning, Building positive relationships with students, Creating realistic expectations for your students, Developing lesson plans that are relevant to students' lives, and Planning with students' psychological needs in mind. As every teacher knows, students learn best when they actually want to learn. Whether at the elementary or high school level, this book will make you think about who your students really are and help you develop a culture of inquiry, trust, and engagement that will release each child's enthusiasm for learning.
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Increasing Student Motivation

2005-09-16

This unique resource provides a wealth of theories and strategies for teachers to help spark students' motivations to learn and succeed beyond their formal schooling years.

Author: Margaret A.Theobald

Publisher: Corwin Press

ISBN: 1412906237

Category: Education

Page: 145

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This unique resource provides a wealth of theories and strategies for teachers to help spark students’ motivations to learn and succeed beyond their formal schooling years.
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Hard Work and High Expectations

1992

This document sketches topics considered by a 1990 conference on student motivation sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the U.S. Department of Education.

Author: Tommy M. Tomlinson

Publisher:

ISBN: UCR:31210024865030

Category: Academic achievement

Page: 32

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This document sketches topics considered by a 1990 conference on student motivation sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the U.S. Department of Education. Educational reforms of the past decade have not produced higher test scores for American students. Rather, American students score lower and study less than students in other developed countries. A number of disincentives to student effort are prevalent. These include: (1) the large number of nonacademic activities which students are encouraged to pursue, and which compete for their time; (2) public policies that reward students for making minimal efforts, a condition exemplified by the fact that, as graduation rates have risen over the past 25 years, academic achievement scores have gone down; (3) ambivalent messages sent by schools when athletes are given privileged status, and peers pressure against academic achievement; and (4) classroom practices by teachers who, although well-intentioned, give students unchallenging work, or convey to students their low expectations. Several strategies to increase student effort are suggested. Appendixes include summaries of conference papers on the role of student effort in Japanese schools; the use of compensatory practices in American schools, such as giving out test answers before a test; and students' interpretations of teachers' behavior and attitudes. (BC)
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Understanding the Nature of Motivation and Motivating Students through Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

2015-11-17

Chapter. 6. Motivating. Students. through. Teaching. and. Learning.
Responsibility. for. Motivating. Learning. To those with a learning or quality ...
One which is all too common is in the form of complaints that students are not
motivated to learn.

Author: David Kember

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9789812878830

Category: Education

Page: 153

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This book is based upon three interrelated open naturalistic studies conducted to better characterise the motivational orientation of students in higher education. Open semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with undergraduates, students at community colleges and students in taught postgraduate courses in Hong Kong. The analysis used an exploratory grounded theory approach and resulted in a motivational orientation framework with six continua with positive and negative poles. On enrolment students had positions on the six facets of motivation, which shifted as they progressed through their degree according to their perceptions of the teaching and learning environment. The framework can, therefore, be used to explain both initial decisions to enrol and motivation to continue studying. The interviews included descriptions of teaching approaches and learning activities and their effects on motivation. This made it possible to describe a teaching and learning environment conducive to motivation, with eight supportive conditions. Each facet of the teaching and learning environment is illustrated with quotations from the three groups of students, resulting in a guide to configuring a teaching and learning environment conducive to motivating students. The emerging community-college sector in Hong Kong is used as a case study of the effects on student motivation of the expansion of the higher education sector through private colleges. Cultural issues are discussed, particularly the performance of Asian students relative to those in the West.
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Motivating Students

2014-05-22

Entwistle, N and Tait, H (1993) 'Identifying students at risk through ineffective
study strategies', European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction
(EARLI): 1993 Symposium on Student Learning, Aix en Provence, France.

Author: Armstrong, Steve

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135368067

Category: Education

Page: 224

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This work brings together the experience of educators, trainers and students searching for ways of increasing student motivation. Links between motivation and training, learning and assessment processes are examined through case studies set in a broad range of subject discipline contexts.
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Motivating Students to Learn

1993

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT AND MOTIVATED STUDENT LEARNING Mary
McCaslin and Thomas L . Good Classroom management touches on very basic
cultural notions of children and the authority of adults and social institutions .

Author: Tommy M. Tomlinson

Publisher:

ISBN: STANFORD:36105127125156

Category: Academic achievement

Page: 270

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Motivation to Learn

1998

Assessing Students' Achievement-Related Goals Several researchers have
developed measures of students' goals. ... in a task to develop understanding or
skills (i.e., identified motivation) is conceptualized as a learning or mastery goal.

Author: Deborah J. Stipek

Publisher: Prentice Hall

ISBN: UOM:39015040334651

Category: Achievement motivation in children

Page: 301

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Motivating students to achieve is a challenging and often frustrating task for today's teachers. This book provides readers with the underlying theories behind motivating their students by integrating theory, research, and practical issues related to achievement motivation. This teacher-centered book gives clear, practical guidelines for diagnosing and improving student's motivation. the focus is on classroom learning, but attention is also given to how strategies used to motivate students in schools affect their motivation to participate in intellectual activities outside of school. Teachers and other educators.
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152 Ways to Keep Students in School

2008

In elementary schools, students help to direct their own learning processes. You
see ... Secondary school teachers believe that we need to motivate them to learn.
Elementary school teachers know that students are naturally motivated to learn.

Author: Franklin P. Schargel

Publisher: Eye On Education

ISBN: 9781596670877

Category: Education

Page: 121

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Speaking from years of experience, author Franklin Schargel provides 152 field-tested ideas about working with at-risk students. Designed to be read and implemented quickly, these are concise snapshots of what educators can do to keep students from dropping out. You can apply these practical tips in your classroom today. The 152 tips are divided into four sections.
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Motivating and Rewarding University Teachers to Improve Student Learning

2011-07-01

She goes out of her way to encourage students individually. She never let me
give up and she made me feel that I belonged. She shows a passion for teaching,
makes students eager to learn more, noteworthy are her optimism and her ...

Author: Donald R. WOODS

Publisher: City University of HK Press

ISBN: 9789629371890

Category: Education

Page: 376

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This volume provides a timely discussion on the issues pondering in the minds of many newly recruited faculty and administrators—to uncover the real culture and offer suggestions on how to create a culture to nurture student learning; and to explore the issue of what is research-in-teaching. With improving student learning as the ultimate goal, the author suggests many concrete ways to change the teaching practice and, more importantly, the culture of a university. Published by City University of Hong Kong Press. 香港城市大學出版社出版。
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Motivating Struggling Learners

2015-06-19

In this must-have book, Barbara R. Blackburn, author of the bestseller Rigor Is Not a Four-Letter Word, shares how you can finally solve this problem and make your classroom a rigorous place where all students want to succeed.

Author: Barbara R. Blackburn

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317647188

Category: Education

Page: 150

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Every day, teachers face the challenge of motivating struggling learners. In this must-have book, Barbara R. Blackburn, author of the bestseller Rigor Is Not a Four-Letter Word, shares how you can finally solve this problem and make your classroom a rigorous place where all students want to succeed. You’ll learn practical strategies for... understanding extrinsic and intrinsic motivation; building a trusting relationship with students; using praise and positive feedback effectively; empowering students and helping them own their learning; moving students toward a growth mindset; communicating high expectations for students; engaging all students in your lessons; scaffolding so all students will want to improve; helping students be resilient and not fear failure; and celebrating diverse groups of students. Each chapter is filled with a variety of examples and tools that you can use immediately. Bonus: Many of the tools are also available as free eResources on our website, www.routledge.com/9781138792432, so you can easily download and print them for classroom use.
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Motivating Students for Lifelong Learning

2000-05-19

This review of eight countries offers innovative schemes that appear to be developing the skills and attitudes necessary for lifelong learning.

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

ISBN: 9789264181830

Category:

Page: 200

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This review of eight countries offers innovative schemes that appear to be developing the skills and attitudes necessary for lifelong learning.
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The Will to Learn

1998

"This book introduces the basic principles of motivation as they apply to classroom learning and management in a readable, non-technical form.

Author: Martin V. Covington

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521556791

Category: Education

Page: 322

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"This book introduces the basic principles of motivation as they apply to classroom learning and management in a readable, non-technical form. Covington argues against the popular notion that the problems existing in schools today stem primarily from a lack of student motivation. Instead, he asserts that students are motivated, sometimes even overly motivated, but often for the wrong reasons. Traditional teaching methods, including conventional grading procedures and an emphasis on competition, can contribute to student demoralization, and Covington identifies the ways in which students respond to misguided incentives. For some students, motivation is directed at avoiding failure by avoiding participation. For others, demoralization leads to withdrawal from an educational system that they believe to be irrelevant to their lives. Still other students are driven to prove their worth by outperforming fellow students. The book suggests practical, concrete ways that teachers can use classroom incentives to inspire a desire to learn." - product description.
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Challenging Students to Learn

2007

The strategies described in this book are based upon years of study, research, and inservice training programs on leadership and motivation that can be used by educators at all levels—elementary, secondary, and university.

Author: Daniel R. Tomal

Publisher: R & L Education

ISBN: STANFORD:36105124077129

Category: Education

Page: 207

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Challenging Students to Learn is an inspirational guide for educators that offers practical principles and strategies for leading and motivating students. The strategies described in this book are based upon years of study, research, and inservice training programs on leadership and motivation that can be used by educators at all levels—elementary, secondary, and university.
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