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Strategies That Promote Student Engagement
Unleashing the Desire to Learn
Second Edition
- Ernestine G. Riggs - Loyola University Chicago, USA
- Cheryl R. Gholar
Foreword by Raymond F. Morgan
September 2008 | 200 pages | Corwin
Strategies That Promote Student Engagement: Unleashing the Desire to Learn offers practical lessons for the classroom that teach students the importance of education in their everyday lives. This resource includes strategies that can be used across the content areas to encourage students to become self-motivated learners. Using the concept of conation - the internal drive that pushes one beyond ordinary expectations and accomplishments - the authors demonstrate how teachers can inspire their students to strive for excellence inside and outside of the classroom.
This revised edition includes:
- Updated research
- Additional grade-specific instructional activities
- Suggestions for assessment
Foreword by Raymond F. Morgan
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
1. Understanding Conation
2. Captivate, Connect, and Cultivate: Creating Lessons That Promote Learning
3. Where Learning Lives: Instructional Activities That Engage Students
4. An Invitation to Learn: Awakening and Motivating Your Classroom
5. For All of Them, I Teach: Reflecting on Your Teaching Philosophy
6. The Bridge Between the Desire to Achieve and Reality: Putting It All Together
Resources
References
Index
"This book is truly relevant to any educator genuinely interested in maximizing a student's potential. The authors provide lessons at the end of each chapter that cross many segments of the curriculum."
Biloxi High School, MS
"The authors are clearly passionate about the need to uncover and build upon the students’ desire and motivation to learn."
University of Southern Indiana
"A captivating topic for teachers, as we all have students who are capable and yet choose not to learn."
Lynch Middle School, Farmington, AR