Strategies That Promote Student Engagement

Unleashing the Desire to Learn
Second Edition
Ernestine G. Riggs - Loyola University Chicago, USA
Strategies That Promote Student Engagement
August 2008 | 200 pages | Corwin
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"A captivating topic for teachers, as we all have students who are capable and yet choose not to learn."
—Melissa Miller, Sixth-Grade Teacher
Lynch Middle School, Farmington, AR

"The authors are clearly passionate about the need to uncover and build upon students' desire and motivation to learn."
—Paul Parkison, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
University of Southern Indiana

Discover how to release the will to learn in all students!

Students who have a strong sense of self-worth and know what they can achieve are more likely to be fully engaged in the learning process and capable of significant academic achievements. This updated edition of Connecting With Students' Will to Succeed offers practical lessons to help all students channel their emotions and energy into becoming positive, self-motivated, and self-directed learners.

Focusing on the concept of conation—"the internal drive that pushes one beyond ordinary expectations and accomplishments"—the authors offer research-based strategies that enable teachers to nurture self-esteem in students and inspire learners with low expectations to strive for excellence. This revised resource offers:

  • Updated research that informs teaching methods
  • Chapter-opening quotes from teachers and students
  • Additional grade-specific individual and group activities that include instructional objectives for specific content areas
  • Suggestions for both formal and informal assessments in each chapter

Strategies That Promote Student Engagement is a road map for connecting the heart, mind, and will of teachers and students to the lifelong pursuit of learning.

Contents

Foreword by Raymond F. Morgan

Foreword by Raymond F. Morgan

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction

Introduction

1. Understanding Conation

  • Where Does the Will to Live, Learn, and Succeed Reside?
  • What Is Conation?
  • How Is Conation Different From Extrinsic Motivation?
  • What Is Conative Intelligence (CI)?

2. Captivate, Connect, and Cultivate: Creating Lessons That Promote Learning

  • Conative Strategies for Engaging Learners
  • Designing Lessons That Reach the Heart of Learning
  • Using Teaching Strategies Effectively in the Conative Domain
  • Increasing Student Self-Efficacy With Choice
  • Achieving High Performance in Spite of the Odds
  • Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies

3. Where Learning Lives: Instructional Activities That Engage Students

  • What Is Learning?
  • What Is Courage?
  • Gholar and Riggs? Conative Taxonomy
  • Conation and Character Building: The Strength and Spirit of Learning
  • What Is Character?
  • Character Development
  • When Conation, Courage, and Character Become One
  • Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies

4. An Invitation to Learn: Awakening and Motivating Your Classroom

  • Inviting Success
  • Connecting to Students? Lives Outside of School
  • Ensuring the Academic Success of Adolescents
  • Conation Moves the Heart of a Teacher
  • The Origins of Success and Failure
  • Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies

5. For All of Them, I Teach: Reflecting on Your Teaching Philosophy

  • Authentic Teaching in the Conative Domain
  • Using Diverse Teaching Styles
  • Using STARS to Support the Will to Learn
  • Implementing the Four I?s of Teacher Leadership
  • Promoting Conation Schoolwide
  • Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies

6. The Bridge Between the Desire to Achieve and Reality: Putting It All Together

  • The Will
  • The Bridge Metaphor
  • Insights Regarding Conation: Next Steps

Resources

  • Lexicon of Two Hundred Words, Thoughts, Phrases, Attitudes, and Expectations That Build Conative Connections
  • Teaching to the Test: A Reflection

References

References

Index

Index

Description

"A captivating topic for teachers, as we all have students who are capable and yet choose not to learn."
—Melissa Miller, Sixth-Grade Teacher
Lynch Middle School, Farmington, AR

"The authors are clearly passionate about the need to uncover and build upon students' desire and motivation to learn."
—Paul Parkison, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
University of Southern Indiana

Discover how to release the will to learn in all students!

Students who have a strong sense of self-worth and know what they can achieve are more likely to be fully engaged in the learning process and capable of significant academic achievements. This updated edition of Connecting With Students' Will to Succeed offers practical lessons to help all students channel their emotions and energy into becoming positive, self-motivated, and self-directed learners.

Focusing on the concept of conation—"the internal drive that pushes one beyond ordinary expectations and accomplishments"—the authors offer research-based strategies that enable teachers to nurture self-esteem in students and inspire learners with low expectations to strive for excellence. This revised resource offers:

  • Updated research that informs teaching methods
  • Chapter-opening quotes from teachers and students
  • Additional grade-specific individual and group activities that include instructional objectives for specific content areas
  • Suggestions for both formal and informal assessments in each chapter

Strategies That Promote Student Engagement is a road map for connecting the heart, mind, and will of teachers and students to the lifelong pursuit of learning.

Contents

Foreword by Raymond F. Morgan

Foreword by Raymond F. Morgan

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction

Introduction

1. Understanding Conation

  • Where Does the Will to Live, Learn, and Succeed Reside?
  • What Is Conation?
  • How Is Conation Different From Extrinsic Motivation?
  • What Is Conative Intelligence (CI)?

2. Captivate, Connect, and Cultivate: Creating Lessons That Promote Learning

  • Conative Strategies for Engaging Learners
  • Designing Lessons That Reach the Heart of Learning
  • Using Teaching Strategies Effectively in the Conative Domain
  • Increasing Student Self-Efficacy With Choice
  • Achieving High Performance in Spite of the Odds
  • Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies

3. Where Learning Lives: Instructional Activities That Engage Students

  • What Is Learning?
  • What Is Courage?
  • Gholar and Riggs? Conative Taxonomy
  • Conation and Character Building: The Strength and Spirit of Learning
  • What Is Character?
  • Character Development
  • When Conation, Courage, and Character Become One
  • Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies

4. An Invitation to Learn: Awakening and Motivating Your Classroom

  • Inviting Success
  • Connecting to Students? Lives Outside of School
  • Ensuring the Academic Success of Adolescents
  • Conation Moves the Heart of a Teacher
  • The Origins of Success and Failure
  • Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies

5. For All of Them, I Teach: Reflecting on Your Teaching Philosophy

  • Authentic Teaching in the Conative Domain
  • Using Diverse Teaching Styles
  • Using STARS to Support the Will to Learn
  • Implementing the Four I?s of Teacher Leadership
  • Promoting Conation Schoolwide
  • Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies

6. The Bridge Between the Desire to Achieve and Reality: Putting It All Together

  • The Will
  • The Bridge Metaphor
  • Insights Regarding Conation: Next Steps

Resources

  • Lexicon of Two Hundred Words, Thoughts, Phrases, Attitudes, and Expectations That Build Conative Connections
  • Teaching to the Test: A Reflection

References

References

Index

Index

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Strategies That Promote Student Engagement

Unleashing the Desire to Learn


August 2008 | 200 pages | Corwin

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"A captivating topic for teachers, as we all have students who are capable and yet choose not to learn."
—Melissa Miller, Sixth-Grade Teacher
Lynch Middle School, Farmington, AR

"The authors are clearly passionate about the need to uncover and build upon students' desire and motivation to learn."
—Paul Parkison, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
University of Southern Indiana

Discover how to release the will to learn in all students!

Students who have a strong sense of self-worth and know what they can achieve are more likely to be fully engaged in the learning process and capable of significant academic achievements. This updated edition of Connecting With Students' Will to Succeed offers practical lessons to help all students channel their emotions and energy into becoming positive, self-motivated, and self-directed learners.

Focusing on the concept of conation—"the internal drive that pushes one beyond ordinary expectations and accomplishments"—the authors offer research-based strategies that enable teachers to nurture self-esteem in students and inspire learners with low expectations to strive for excellence. This revised resource offers:

  • Updated research that informs teaching methods
  • Chapter-opening quotes from teachers and students
  • Additional grade-specific individual and group activities that include instructional objectives for specific content areas
  • Suggestions for both formal and informal assessments in each chapter

Strategies That Promote Student Engagement is a road map for connecting the heart, mind, and will of teachers and students to the lifelong pursuit of learning.


Table Of Contents:

  • Foreword by Raymond F. Morgan
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Understanding Conation
  • Where Does the Will to Live, Learn, and Succeed Reside?
  • What Is Conation?
  • How Is Conation Different From Extrinsic Motivation?
  • What Is Conative Intelligence (CI)?
  • 2. Captivate, Connect, and Cultivate: Creating Lessons That Promote Learning
  • Conative Strategies for Engaging Learners
  • Designing Lessons That Reach the Heart of Learning
  • Using Teaching Strategies Effectively in the Conative Domain
  • Increasing Student Self-Efficacy With Choice
  • Achieving High Performance in Spite of the Odds
  • Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies
  • 3. Where Learning Lives: Instructional Activities That Engage Students
  • What Is Learning?
  • What Is Courage?
  • Gholar and Riggs? Conative Taxonomy
  • Conation and Character Building: The Strength and Spirit of Learning
  • What Is Character?
  • Character Development
  • When Conation, Courage, and Character Become One
  • Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies
  • 4. An Invitation to Learn: Awakening and Motivating Your Classroom
  • Inviting Success
  • Connecting to Students? Lives Outside of School
  • Ensuring the Academic Success of Adolescents
  • Conation Moves the Heart of a Teacher
  • The Origins of Success and Failure
  • Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies
  • 5. For All of Them, I Teach: Reflecting on Your Teaching Philosophy
  • Authentic Teaching in the Conative Domain
  • Using Diverse Teaching Styles
  • Using STARS to Support the Will to Learn
  • Implementing the Four I?s of Teacher Leadership
  • Promoting Conation Schoolwide
  • Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies
  • 6. The Bridge Between the Desire to Achieve and Reality: Putting It All Together
  • The Will
  • The Bridge Metaphor
  • Insights Regarding Conation: Next Steps
  • Resources
  • Lexicon of Two Hundred Words, Thoughts, Phrases, Attitudes, and Expectations That Build Conative Connections
  • Teaching to the Test: A Reflection
  • References
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"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."
Todd Boucher, Social Studies Teacher, Biloxi High School, MS
"The authors are clearly passionate about the need to uncover and build upon the students’ desire and motivation to learn."
Paul Parkison, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, University of Southern Indiana
"A captivating topic for teachers, as we all have students who are capable and yet choose not to learn."
Melissa Miller, Sixth-Grade Teacher, Lynch Middle School, Farmington, AR

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