Getting the Buggers Motivated in FE

by Susan Wallace

Overview

This is a survival guide to beating bad behaviour and motivating students in FE. Susan Wallace provides readers with helpful hints and strategies for preventing lower level disruption to coping when things get really tough. Informative and engaging, this practical guide will prove essential reading for everyone in FE.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826492494
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/15/2007
Series:	Getting the Buggers
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Dr Susan Wallace is Reader in Post-compulsory Education at Nottingham Trent University. She taught for ten years in FE, and has worked in an LEA advisory role for post-16 education. She has written widely on professional development for teachers.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword

 

Series Introduction

 

Introduction



Chapter 1: The Four Big Demotivators and how to beat them



Chapter 2: Strategy 1: Using Reward as a Motivational Strategy



Chapter 3: Strategy 2: Building Motivation through Positive Relationships



Chapter 4: Strategy 3: Encouraging Motivation through Respect for self, for

others and for rules



Chapter 5: Strategy 4: Waking them up with some Razzmatazz



Chapter 6: Getting Individuals Motivated



Chapter 7: Motivating 14-16 year-olds



Chapter 8: Motivating Adult Learners



Chapter 9: Talking the talk: Challenging the language of demotivation



Chapter 10: What would you do if..................?



Postscript: Keeping yourself motivated



Index