What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Motivation

by Donna E. Walker Tileston

Overview

Powerful, brain-friendly strategies for motivating, challenging, and celebrating your students!

This second edition is filled with practices for motivating even the most at-risk and reluctant students. Informed by current research on the plasticity of the brain and new insights on the relationship between culture and student motivation, the book features an extended classroom example of motivational techniques in action and vocabulary pre- and post-tests for teachers and details how:

• Technology influences the brain and motivation
• Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are related to celebrations and rewards
• Specific strategies can motivate students to begin and finish a task
• Teachers can foster students' positive self-talk and on-task behaviors

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412971768
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/30/2010
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	110
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna’s publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin's bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her Ed D from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

About the Author ix

Introduction xi

Vocabulary Pretest xv

1 What is Motivation and Why Does it Matter So Much? 1

What is Motivation? 4

Build Intrinsic Motivation 5

What is Extrinsic Motivation 8

The Difference Between Rewards and Celebrations 9

2 What are the Roots of Motivation? 15

Understanding the Mental Processes 18

The Self-System 19

The Metacognitive System 24

The Cognitive System 27

3 Motivation to Begin a Lesson or Task 29

Getting the Brain's Attention 30

The Role of Self-Attributes 35

The Role of the Self and Others 37

The Role of the Student's Perception of the Nature of the World 38

How Climate Affects Motivation 42

The Relationship Between Importance and Motivation 46

Why is Efficacy Important to Motivation? 47

4 How Do We Encourage Students to Finish the Task? 49

Activating the Metacognitive System 50

What about Minor Off-Task Behavior? 61

5 A Model for Developing Motivation in the Classroom 67

Attitudes Toward and Perceptions of the Learning 68

Learning States and Discipline Problems 74

What Ms. Walker Did to Reach Diverse Learners 82

6 A Model for Facilitating Motivation 85

A Model for Turning on the Motivation Within 85

Vocabulary Summary 89

Students at Risk 89

Celebrations 89

Climate 90

Contextualization 90

Extrinsic Motivation 91

Vocabulary Posttest 97

Vocabulary Pretest and Posttest Answer Key 101

References 103

Index 107

Editorial Reviews

"Teachers can often get frustrated when they don't think their students care. This book gives the teacher a way to take ownership of the situation rather than blame the students. "

Lyneille Meza

"The author addresses the number one issue in the classroom today. This book is full of exciting and applicable information on how to motivate today’s learners. "

Gary L. Willhite

"This book is user friendly, informative, creative, and current in today’s society. "

Mari Teacher

"Teachers can often get frustrated when they don′t think their students care. This book gives the teacher a way to take ownership of the situation rather than blame the students."--Lyneille Meza, Coordinator of Data & Assessment (9/23/2009 12:00:00 AM)

"The author addresses the number one issue in the classroom today. This book is full of exciting and applicable information on how to motivate today's learners."--Gary L. Willhite, Teacher Educator/Associate Professor (9/23/2009 12:00:00 AM)

"This book is user friendly, informative, creative, and current in today's society."--Mari Teacher, Fifth-Grade Teacher (9/23/2009 12:00:00 AM)

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