Learning Grows (eBook)

The Science of Motivation for the Classroom Teacher

Andrew C. Watson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
174 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-3335-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Written for teachers—and everyone interested in teaching and learning—Learning Grows helps classrooms flourish by fostering students’ intrinsic motivation. By interleaving psychology and neuroscience research with dozens of practical classroom examples, Learning Grows makes these two theories both clear and immediately useful.

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Combining a lively voice with scientific research, Learning Grows explores the fascinating and useful world of student motivation. Written for teachersand everyone interested in teaching and learningLearning Grows helps classrooms flourish by fostering students' intrinsic motivation.Part I delves into Mindset. Although seemingly well known, this theory is often oversimplified and widely misunderstood. By exploring its step-by-step historical development, we can use it more flexibly and effectively to help learners ';charge!' when they might otherwise ';retreat.'Part II enters the paradoxical world of Stereotype Threat. A surprising cascade of counter-intuitive effects can cause students to struggle in schoolnot because they don't care, but because they work too hard. The right classroom strategies block this demotivational pathway, and thereby foster student learning.By interleaving psychology and neuroscience research with dozens of practical classroom examples, Learning Grows makes these two theories both clear and immediately useful. Learning Grows is the second book in the series ';A Teacher's Guide to the Learning Brain.' The first book, Learning Begins, studies the science of working memory and attention.

Autor

Teacher, author, professional development leader, Andrew Watson has been exploring classroom uses of brain research for over ten years. As founder and president of Translate the Brain, he has travelled to 17 states (and four continents) to work with teachers, students, and parents. He edits the Learning and the Brain blog, and speaks regularly at national conferences. Visit www.TranslateTheBrain.com.

Inhalt

PrefaceIntroductionPart I: MindsetChapter 1: Starting at the Fourth StepChapter 2: Second Step: Rehearsing, not PerformingChapter 3: The First Step (at Last)Chapter 4: The Mindset Controversy and FAQsPart II: Stereotype ThreatChapter 5: (De)Motivation and StereotypesChapter 6: Changing the Motivational ClimateChapter 7: Assessment and Stereotype Threat FAQsReferencesAbout the AuthorIndex

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: A Teacher’s Guide to the Learning Brain
• Zusatzinfo: 22 Illustrations including: - 22 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Administration • art of motivation • Classroom management • (de)motivation • Development • Elementary School • High School • middle school • Mindset • Motivation • Novice Teachers • professional development • Teacher Education • teacher retention
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-3335-0 / 1475833350
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-3335-5 / 9781475833355