Hands-on, Practical Guidance for Educators

From math, literacy, equity, multilingual learners, and SEL, to assessment, school counseling, and education leadership, our books are research-based and authored by experts on topics most relevant to what educators are facing today.

Look Inside

Motivating Every Learner

By: Alan McLean

Look Inside

Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781848601826
Published By: Sage UK
Year: 2009
Page Count: 272
Publication date: June 04, 2009

Price: $62

Select Format:

For Instructors

This book is not available as a review copy.

Description

Do you understand what motivates the children in your class? How can you help children understand their own behavior? And what effects can this have on learning?

This fascinating book explores the interactions between teachers and students, presenting new ways of engaging young people in learning. Alan McLean's very practical approach shows teachers how to understand children's learning stances—the modes of behavior that children bring with them to the classroom. Linking this to specific teaching methods, he shows how teachers can shape their teaching to help children learn more effectively.

Chapters cover:

- What makes pupils tick?

- What pupils do to motivate themselves

- Understanding children's emotions

- What teachers can do to motivate pupils

- Personality styles and how to work with them effectively

- Children's learning stances

Alan McLean is Principal Educational Psychologist at Glasgow City Council.

Author(s)

Alan McLean

Table of Contents

PART ONE: WHAT MAKES PUPILS TICK

What Makes Pupils Tick

What Pupils Need

PART TWO: WHAT PUPILS DO TO MOTIVATE THEMSELVES

What Pupils Do to Motivate Themselves

What Pupils Need to Meet Their Needs for Themselves

How Resilience Shapes How Pupils Meet Their Needs

How Pupils Feel about Themselves: Their Emotions as Their Personal Guide

PART THREE: WHAT TEACHERS DO

What Teachers Do to Motivate Their Pupils

Teaching Styles

PART FOUR: HOW PUPILS ADAPT

The Learning Stances

The Layers of the Matrix

PART FIVE: THE STANCE-SPECIFIC TEACHING STYLES AND ENERGIZERS

The Opposing Reaction

The Alarming and Draining Reaction

The Hiding Reaction

The Exasperating Reaction

The Positive Learning Stances

Recap, Recurring Themes and Concluding Thoughts

Appendix 1: How are the Three As Met in Your School?

Appendix 2: How Motivating is My Classroom?

Reviews

'It is helpful at least now and then for language teachers to read a book on a key topic - such as this one - which has drawn on a substantially different literature than that which is normally consulted by writers in out field...Extremely accessible and reader friendly. Highly recommended' -
The Teacher Trainer Journal

''If you want to understand what makes for a motivated (or a de-motivated) learner in comtemporary classrooms, you could not do better than read, understand and apply the insights of Motivating Every Learner' - Scottish Educational Review

Other Titles in: Learning Styles

Select Format:

For Instructors

This book is not available as a review copy.