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Motivating Every Learner

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781848601819
  • Published By: Sage UK
  • Year: 2009
  • Page Count: 272
  • Publication date: June 04, 2009
Price: $177.00
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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)

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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

Quote by : '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

'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



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Price: $177.00
Volume Discounts applied in Shopping Cart

Review Copies

Review copies may be requested by individuals planning to purchase 10 or more copies for a team or considering a book for adoption in a higher ed course. To request a review copy, contact sales@corwin.com.