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The innovative guide for classroom teachers who want to use brain-friendly strategies to motivate, challenge, and reward their students.

Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation affect student attitudes and perceptions about learning and achievement. Tileston′s distinctive approach covers:

The roots of motivation: cognitive, metacognitive , and the self-system Motivating students to begin a lesson or task: using novelty, attention, climate, attitude, perception, importance, efficacy, and more Motivating students to finish a task On-task and off-task behaviors A model for developing motivation in the classroom A model for facilitating motivation Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary Bibliography and index

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• About the Author
• Introduction
• Vocabulary Pre-Test
• 1 What Is Motivation and Why Does It Matter?
• 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
• Glossary
• Vocabulary Post-Test
• Bibliography
• Index

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

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. Donna's 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