What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Motivation

Download or read book What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Motivation written by Donna Walker Tileston and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The innovative guide for classroom teachers who want to use brain-friendly strategies to motivate, challenge, and reward their students. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation affect student attitudes and perceptions about learning and achievement. Tileston's distinctive approach covers: *The roots of motivation: cognitive, metacognitive, and the self-system *Motivating students to begin a lesson or task: using novelty, attention, climate, attitude, perception, importance, efficacy, and more *Motivating students to finish a task *On-task and off-task behaviors *A model for developing motivation in the classroom *A model for facilitating motivation *Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary *Bibliography and index.