Promoting Intrinsic Motivation of At-Risk Adolescent Students

This book written to help every educator; Teacher, school staff, school leader and parent to identify the variables of intrinsic motivation and be able to collaborate with at-risk students to promote intrinsic motivation. This book describes the variables of intrinsic motivation and demonstrates the application of these variables such as self determination, curiosity, feeling of competence, interest in task, recognition, autonomy, challenging task, sense of purpose, and satisfaction to improve the academic performance of the at-risk students. It provides the insight of students' learning method and provides educators with tools and techniques on how to encourage at-risk students to learn and be academically successful. This book provides parents and educators with information about reasons why students are at-risk, the ability to help and support students to be successful. Finally, this book reveals the findings of many researchers, educational practitioners and the author's finding of his research of 3 model California continuation schools on the success of at-risk students performance through the promotion of intrinsic motivation.