Motivating Learners in the Classroom: Ideas and Strategies

by Gavin Reid

Overview

Helps educators create an optimum learning environment for students with different learning styles and is packed with practical, adaptable strategies to help every learner succeed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412930970
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/17/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dr. Gavin Reid is an international consultant and psychologist with consultancies in Canada, UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australasia. He was Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in the Department of Education and Counseling Psychology and Special Education in 2007 and 2010.
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He is chair of the British Dyslexia Association Accreditation Board and an ambassador for the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre in the UK and is a Consultant/Psychologist for the Centre for Child Evaluation and Teaching (CCET) in Kuwait and the Lighthouse Learning Centre in Cairo. He is also a director of the Red Rose School for children with specific learning difficulties in St Annes on Sea, Lancashire, UK.

He was formerly senior lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies (formally Department of Special Education), Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, from 1991 to 2007. He has written 34 books on learning, motivation and dyslexia and lectured to thousands of professionals and parents in 75 countries. Some of his books have been published in Polish, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Latvian and Slovak. He is an experienced teacher with over ten years’ experience in the classroom and has held external examiner appointments at 20 universities worldwide for Ph D and masters’ courses. He resides in Vancouver and Edinburgh.

His email is [e-mail] and his website is: www.drgavinreid.com

Table of Contents

Introduction
Motivation
Self-Knowledge
The Learning Environment
The Task
Memory
Expectations
Social and Emotional Factors
Sources and Support
Reflection

Editorial Reviews

The practical ideas will be invaluable to classroom teachers, trainee teachers, learning support staff, and the school management team. Encouraging a climate of success among learners, it has potential to help all students become better learners.

Sirreadalot.org

The practical ideas will be invaluable to classroom teachers, trainee teachers, learning support staff, and the school management team. Encouraging a climate of success among learners, it has potential to help all students become better learners.

November 2007 Sirreadalot.org