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Strategies That Promote Student Engagement

Unleashing the Desire to Learn

Second Edition
By: Ernestine G. Riggs, Cheryl R. Gholar

Foreword by Raymond F. Morgan

Discover how to release the will to learn in all students!

Focusing on the concept of conation—"the internal drive that pushes one beyond ordinary expectations and accomplishments"—this resource demonstrates how teachers can nurture self-esteem in students and inspire learners to strive for excellence. This updated edition of Connecting With Students' Will to Succeed offers:

Updated research that informs teaching methods
Chapter-opening quotes from teachers and students
Additional grade-specific individual and group activities that include instructional objectives for specific content areas
Suggestions for both formal and informal assessments in each chapter

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412963190
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2008
Page Count: 200
Publication date: August 01, 2008

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"A captivating topic for teachers, as we all have students who are capable and yet choose not to learn."
—Melissa Miller, Sixth-Grade Teacher
Lynch Middle School, Farmington, AR

"The authors are clearly passionate about the need to uncover and build upon students' desire and motivation to learn."
—Paul Parkison, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
University of Southern Indiana

Discover how to release the will to learn in all students!

Students who have a strong sense of self-worth and know what they can achieve are more likely to be fully engaged in the learning process and capable of significant academic achievements. This updated edition of Connecting With Students' Will to Succeed offers practical lessons to help all students channel their emotions and energy into becoming positive, self-motivated, and self-directed learners.

Focusing on the concept of conation—"the internal drive that pushes one beyond ordinary expectations and accomplishments"—the authors offer research-based strategies that enable teachers to nurture self-esteem in students and inspire learners with low expectations to strive for excellence. This revised resource offers:

Updated research that informs teaching methods
Chapter-opening quotes from teachers and students
Additional grade-specific individual and group activities that include instructional objectives for specific content areas
Suggestions for both formal and informal assessments in each chapter

Strategies That Promote Student Engagement is a road map for connecting the heart, mind, and will of teachers and students to the lifelong pursuit of learning.

Key features

Discussion of the learning process, including what drives students to excel in the classroom
Success stories from teachers and students
Adaptable lesson plans across the content areas for primary and secondary classrooms
Research based instructional strategies
Informal and formal assessment suggestions

Author(s)

Ernestine G. Riggs

Ernestine G. Riggs is an associate professor at Loyola University Chicago. She has been involved in the field of education for more than 40 years and has a diverse background in teaching and administration. Riggs was selected as one of the Outstanding Elementary Teachers of America by the United States Department of Defense Overseas Schools in 1974. She is the coauthor of Beyond Rhetoric and Rainbows: A Journey to the Place Where Learning Lives, Helping Middle and High School Readers: Teaching and Learning Strategies Across the Curriculum, and several journal articles. She is also co-featured in the video Ensuring Success for “Low Yield” Students: Building Lives and Molding Futures. In the summer of 2007, Riggs was invited to present a précis of the research on conation at the prestigious Oxford Round Table in Oxford, England. Riggs is a frequent presenter at local, district, national, and international conferences.

Cheryl R. Gholar

Cheryl R. Gholar has been a teacher, counselor, and administrator in public schools and worked in postsecondary education for more than thirty years. She is associate director of the Professional Development Consortium. Gholar is coauthor of Beyond Rhetoric and Rainbows: A Journey to the Place Where Learning Lives. She is also co-featured in the video Ensuring Success for “Low Yield” Students: Building Lives and Molding Futures. She is published in Vitae Scholasticae, Black Issues in Higher Education, The Journal of Staff Development, Careers With Character, and more. Gholar’s awards include Educator of the Year, Phi Delta Kappa, Those Who Excel, Oppenheimer Family Foundation, Outstanding Teacher, Chicago Region PTA, and Outstanding Contributions to The Department of Character Education, Chicago Public Schools. She is listed in Who’s Who Among Women, Who’s Who in The Midwest, and International Who’s Who of Professionals.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Raymond F. Morgan

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

1. Understanding Conation

Where Does the Will to Live, Learn, and Succeed Reside?

What Is Conation?

How Is Conation Different From Extrinsic Motivation?

What Is Conative Intelligence (CI)?

2. Captivate, Connect, and Cultivate: Creating Lessons That Promote Learning

Conative Strategies for Engaging Learners

Designing Lessons That Reach the Heart of Learning

Using Teaching Strategies Effectively in the Conative Domain

Increasing Student Self-Efficacy With Choice

Achieving High Performance in Spite of the Odds

Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies

3. Where Learning Lives: Instructional Activities That Engage Students

What Is Learning?

What Is Courage?

Gholar and Riggs? Conative Taxonomy

Conation and Character Building: The Strength and Spirit of Learning

What Is Character?

Character Development

When Conation, Courage, and Character Become One

Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies

4. An Invitation to Learn: Awakening and Motivating Your Classroom

Inviting Success

Connecting to Students? Lives Outside of School

Ensuring the Academic Success of Adolescents

Conation Moves the Heart of a Teacher

The Origins of Success and Failure

Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies

5. For All of Them, I Teach: Reflecting on Your Teaching Philosophy

Authentic Teaching in the Conative Domain

Using Diverse Teaching Styles

Using STARS to Support the Will to Learn

Implementing the Four I?s of Teacher Leadership

Promoting Conation Schoolwide

Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies

6. The Bridge Between the Desire to Achieve and Reality: Putting It All Together

The Will

The Bridge Metaphor

Insights Regarding Conation: Next Steps

Resources

Lexicon of Two Hundred Words, Thoughts, Phrases, Attitudes, and Expectations That Build Conative Connections

Teaching to the Test: A Reflection

References

Index

Reviews

"This book is truly relevant to any educator genuinely interested in maximizing a student's potential. The authors provide lessons at the end of each chapter that cross many segments of the curriculum."

Todd Boucher, Social Studies Teacher
Biloxi High School, MS

"The authors are clearly passionate about the need to uncover and build upon the students’ desire and motivation to learn."

Paul Parkison, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
University of Southern Indiana

"A captivating topic for teachers, as we all have students who are capable and yet choose not to learn."

Melissa Miller, Sixth-Grade Teacher
Lynch Middle School, Farmington, AR

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