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