Motivating Students: 25 Strategies to Light the Fire of Engagement (Classroom Strategies)

Learn why students disengage and how to motivate them to achieve success with a five-step framework. Research-based strategies and fun activities show how to instill a lasting love of learning in students of any age. Classroom tips and troubleshooting advice for common motivation problems prepare readers for the real-world ups and downs of motivating students.

Benefits:

• Gain concrete, research-based strategies for counteracting both long- and short-term disengagement.
• Understand the importance of quality relationships between teachers and students.
• Explore the impact of positive reinforcement and feedback.
• Learn a simple three-step process to motivate students to engage.
• Facilitate team discussion about motivation and engagement with a Campfire Talk that closes each chapter.

Contents:
Chapter 1: Understanding Motivation
Chapter 2: Building a Classroom Learning Community
Chapter 3: Describing and Planning Learning
Chapter 4: Finding Adventure
Chapter 5: Promoting Choice and Control
Chapter 6: Ensuring Learning
Chapter 7: Keeping the Flame Burning!

Carolyn Chapman is an international education consultant, author, and teacher. She has taught in classrooms at all levels, from kindergarten to college. Her interactive, hands-on professional development sessions focus on many of the key components from her best-selling books. Carolyn works closely with educators throughout the country to ensure lifelong success in students of all ages and learning levels.

Carolyn has authored and coauthored many publications on differentiated instruction, literacy, multiple assessments, multiple intelligences, and the brain-compatible classroom. She is coauthor of the landmark book Differentiated Instructional Strategies.

Nicole Dimich Vagle has a passion for education and lifelong learning, which has led her to extensively explore, facilitate, and implement innovative practices in school improvement. She works with elementary and secondary educators in presentations, trainings, and consultations that address today's most critical issues all in the spirit of facilitating improved support of student learning.

Nicole was a high school reform specialist, where she worked closely with school and district staff to support the implementation of small learning communities. This work included coaching individual and teams of teachers in assessment, literacy, and high expectations for all students. Nicole also helped facilitate and implement a data templates project in collaboration with the University of Minnesota. As training coordinator, she helped elementary and secondary educators design templates to track and analyze data.

A former middle and high school English teacher, Nicole was also a program evaluator and trainer at the Princeton Center for Leadership Training in New Jersey. She produced a training DVD that illustrates a protocol for examining the effectiveness of assessments and student learning. A featured presenter at conferences throughout North America, Nicole empowers educators to build capacity for and implement formative assessment practices, common assessment design and analysis, data-driven decisions, student work protocols, and motivational strategies.

Nicole earned a master of arts in human development from Saint Mary's University and a bachelor of arts in English and psychology from Concordia College. She is pursuing a doctorate.