Summary
Jere Brophy: How to Motivate Students to Learn
Written especially for teachers, this book offers a wealth of research-based principles for motivating students to learn. Her focus on motivational principles, rather than motivational theorists or theories, leads naturally into discussion of concrete strategies in the classroom. Throughout the book, these principles and strategies are connected to the reality of contemporary schools (eg, curriculum goals) and classrooms (eg, student differences, classroom dynamics). The author uses an eclectic approach to motivation that shows how to efficiently integrate the use of extrinsic and intrinsic strategies. Guidelines are provided for adapting motivational principles to group and individual differences, and for "corrective work" with students who have become discouraged or dissatisfied. In this edition, the author considers the role of parents in motivation for school, goal theory and self-determination theory, value aspects of motivation, aspects of motivation related to self and identity, and the role of teachers in supporting student motivation. The text focuses on those aspects of the literature on motivation that are directly applicable to classroom teaching, and the focus is predominantly on the teacher as a motivator, rather than on the student as someone who is motivated.
Each section contains conclusions and summaries, as well as questions for reflection and recommended reading.
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