Motivating Students to Learn

✍ Scribed by Jere E. Brophy

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written specifically for teachers, this book offers a wealth of research-based principles for motivating students to learn. Its focus on motivational principles rather than motivation theorists or theories leads naturally into discussion of specific classroom strategies. Throughout the book these principles and strategies are tied to the realities of contemporary schools (e.g., curriculum goals) and classrooms (e.g., student differences, classroom dynamics). The author employs an eclectic approach to motivation that shows how to effectively integrate the use of extrinsic and intrinsic strategies. Guidelines are provided for adapting motivational principles to group and individual differences and for doing "repair work" with students who have become discouraged or disaffected learners.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Motivating students to learn......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
1 Student Motivation: Th e Teacher’s Perspective......Page 18
2 Establishing a Learning Community in Your Classroom......Page 39
3 Supporting Students’ Confi dence as Learners......Page 61
4 Goal Theory......Page 88
5 Rebuilding Discouraged Students’ Confidence and Willingness to Learn......Page 118
6 Providing Extrinsic Incentives......Page 144
7 Self-Determination Th eory of Intrinsic Motivation: Meeting Students’
Needs for Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness......Page 169
8 Other Ways to Support Students’ Intrinsic Motivation......Page 201
9 Stimulating Students’ Motivation to Learn......Page 225
10 Socializing Uninterested or Alienated Students......Page 273
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Adapting to Differences in Students’
Motivational Patterns......Page 294
12 Looking Back and Ahead: Integrating Motivational Goals into Your
Planning and Teaching......Page 329
Author Index......Page 344
Subject Index......Page 356