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What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Motivation
Second Edition
- Donna Walker Tileston - Strategic Teaching and Learning, Dallas, TX
August 2012 | 136 pages | Corwin
In this new and updated edition of What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Motivation, Donna Walker Tileston offers teachers brain-friendly strategies for motivating and challenging even the most at-risk or reluctant students.
Informed by current research on the plasticity of the brain, and new insights on the relationship between culture and student motivation, Tileston's model provides teachers with the information and strategies they need to get to the root of motivation problems and facilitate increased engagement and student achievement in their classrooms.
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Vocabulary Pretest
1. What Is Motivation and Why Does It Matter So Much?
2. What Are the Roots of Motivation?
3. Motivation to Begin a Lesson or Task
4. How Do We Encourage Students to Finish the Task?
5. A Model for Developing Motivation in the Classroom
6. A Model for Facilitating Motivation
Vocabulary Summary
Vocabulary Posttest
Vocabulary Pretest and Posttest Answer Key
References
Index
