Motivating students to learn

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Author:

Brophy, Jere E.

ISBN:

9780070081987

Personal Author:

Brophy, Jere E.

Publication Information:

Boston : McGraw-Hill, c1998.

Physical Description:

xix, 277 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

1. Student motivation: the teacher's perspective -- 2. Establishing your classroom as a learning community -- 3. Supporting students' confidence as learners -- 4. Rebuilding discouraged students' confidence and willingness to learn -- 5. Providing extrinsic incentives -- 6. Connecting with students' intrinsic motivation -- 7. Stimulating students' motivation to learn -- 8. Socializing uninterested or alienated students -- 9. Adapting to group and individual differences in students' motivational patterns -- 10. Looking back and ahead: integrating motivational goals into your planning and teaching.

Abstract:

This book offers teachers principles and strategies to use in motivating their students to learn and for capitalizing on students' existing intrinsic motivation.

Subject Term:

Motivation in education.

Motivation en éducation.

Motivation in education. (OCoLC)fst01027541

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/mh041/97001283.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/mh022/97001283.html
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/mh022/97001283.html

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Summary

This text is written explicitly for teachers. It offers them principles and strategies to use in motivating their students to learn. Although it offers theories that explain students' motivational orientations, it focuses on strategies teachers can use to optimize those orientations and direct them toward the academic learning golas of the school.