$46.49
Author: Anderson Mike
Number Of Pages: 166
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Packed with practical strategies you can use to create a culture of self-motivation in your school!
Teachers use traditional incentive and reward systems with the best of intentions. We’re trying to support students’ positive behavior and learning. We’re hoping to motivate and inspire students to work hard and do well in school. If everyone behaves, we’ll have a pizza party. The more books you read, the more stickers you’ll receive. On the surface, these systems seem to make sense. They may even seem to work. But in the long term, they do not foster intrinsic motivation or a love of learning. In fact, they often have the opposite effect.
In Tackling the Motivation Crisis: How to Activate Student Learning Without Behavior Charts, Pizza Parties, or Other Hard-to-Quit Incentive Systems, award-winning educator and best-selling author Mike Anderson explains
* The damage done by extrinsic motivation systems and why they are so hard for us to give up.
* What intrinsic motivation looks like and the six high-impact motivators—autonomy, belonging, competence, purpose, fun, and curiosity—that foster it.
* How to teach the self-management and self-motivation skills that can make a difference for kids.
* How to use intrinsic motivation in curricula and instructional strategies, feedback and assessment, and discipline and classroom management.
Ultimately, our job as teachers is not to motivate our students. It’s to make sure that our classrooms and schools are places that inspire their intrinsic motivation and allow it to flourish. Anderson shows how you can better do that right away—no matter what grade level or subject area you teach.
Review
Mike Anderson crafts a compelling case for the claim that motivation for doing the work of learning needs to be owned by the learner. In his usual invitational style, he offers many practical examples that teachers can use to transform the tasks we assign as “school” work into authentically motivated learning opportunities for our students.
—Bena Kallick, cofounder and codirector of Institute for Habits of Mind
Have your students ever asked, “Is this going to be graded?” or “Why do we have to do this?” If so, this book is going to save you a lot of headaches and inspire change! In Tackling the Motivation Crisis, Mike Anderson explains how many of our current practices, intended to increase engagement, create compliance at best. You will devour this book as you relate to stories about chip theft, beach stone crafts, and how group work and fun are like broccoli. This text, with its practical classroom examples and analogies, will help readers better understand the psychology of motivation, break the cycle of student disinterest, and create equitable opportunities for all students to be self-directed, empowered learners.
—Katie Novak, education consultant and best-selling author of UDL Now, Equity by Design, and Innovate Inside the Box
Mike Anderson’s book challenges educators to give up the gimmicks and lean into designing learning experiences with and for students that give them compelling reasons to self-motivate and invest. A must-read for anyone seeking to support the development of authentic, intrinsic motivation in students.
—Holly Martin, staff development and professional learning specialist for the Mountain Brook, AL public schools
We’ve all been there, facing a gauntlet of “unmotivated” and “disengaged” students. We’ve wished and hoped that something would magically appear to help get them connected and inspired. However, as Mike Anderson points out in Tackling the Motivation Crisis, our best bet isn’t to try to change the kids, it’s to fix a broken system. With a healthy dose of common sense and a plethora of practical ideas, Mike addresses educator mindsets, curriculum, feedback, grading, and discipline—elements of schooling that are under our control—so we might revamp our approaches and tap into our students’ innate and intrinsic curiosity. We must do better, and wi
Release Date: 16-08-2021
Package Dimensions: 11x226x200
