Motivating Every Learner

Alan McLean - Principal Psychologist, Glasgow City Council, Educational Services
Motivating Every Learner
June 2009 | 272 pages | Sage UK
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Do you understand what motivates the children in your class? How can you help children understand their own behavior? And what effects can this have on learning?

This fascinating book explores the interactions between teachers and students, presenting new ways of engaging young people in learning. Alan McLean's very practical approach shows teachers how to understand children's learning stances—the modes of behavior that children bring with them to the classroom. Linking this to specific teaching methods, he shows how teachers can shape their teaching to help children learn more effectively.

Chapters cover:

- What makes pupils tick?

- What pupils do to motivate themselves

- Understanding children's emotions

- What teachers can do to motivate pupils

- Personality styles and how to work with them effectively

- Children's learning stances

Alan McLean is Principal Educational Psychologist at Glasgow City Council.

Contents

PART ONE: WHAT MAKES PUPILS TICK

  • What Makes Pupils Tick
  • What Pupils Need

PART TWO: WHAT PUPILS DO TO MOTIVATE THEMSELVES

  • What Pupils Do to Motivate Themselves
  • What Pupils Need to Meet Their Needs for Themselves
  • How Resilience Shapes How Pupils Meet Their Needs
  • How Pupils Feel about Themselves: Their Emotions as Their Personal Guide

PART THREE: WHAT TEACHERS DO

  • What Teachers Do to Motivate Their Pupils
  • Teaching Styles

PART FOUR: HOW PUPILS ADAPT

  • The Learning Stances
  • The Layers of the Matrix

PART FIVE: THE STANCE-SPECIFIC TEACHING STYLES AND ENERGIZERS

  • The Opposing Reaction
  • The Alarming and Draining Reaction
  • The Hiding Reaction
  • The Exasperating Reaction
  • The Positive Learning Stances
  • Recap, Recurring Themes and Concluding Thoughts
  • Appendix 1: How are the Three As Met in Your School?
  • Appendix 2: How Motivating is My Classroom?

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Description

Do you understand what motivates the children in your class? How can you help children understand their own behavior? And what effects can this have on learning?

This fascinating book explores the interactions between teachers and students, presenting new ways of engaging young people in learning. Alan McLean's very practical approach shows teachers how to understand children's learning stances—the modes of behavior that children bring with them to the classroom. Linking this to specific teaching methods, he shows how teachers can shape their teaching to help children learn more effectively.

Chapters cover:

- What makes pupils tick?

- What pupils do to motivate themselves

- Understanding children's emotions

- What teachers can do to motivate pupils

- Personality styles and how to work with them effectively

- Children's learning stances

Alan McLean is Principal Educational Psychologist at Glasgow City Council.

Contents

PART ONE: WHAT MAKES PUPILS TICK

  • What Makes Pupils Tick
  • What Pupils Need

PART TWO: WHAT PUPILS DO TO MOTIVATE THEMSELVES

  • What Pupils Do to Motivate Themselves
  • What Pupils Need to Meet Their Needs for Themselves
  • How Resilience Shapes How Pupils Meet Their Needs
  • How Pupils Feel about Themselves: Their Emotions as Their Personal Guide

PART THREE: WHAT TEACHERS DO

  • What Teachers Do to Motivate Their Pupils
  • Teaching Styles

PART FOUR: HOW PUPILS ADAPT

  • The Learning Stances
  • The Layers of the Matrix

PART FIVE: THE STANCE-SPECIFIC TEACHING STYLES AND ENERGIZERS

  • The Opposing Reaction
  • The Alarming and Draining Reaction
  • The Hiding Reaction
  • The Exasperating Reaction
  • The Positive Learning Stances
  • Recap, Recurring Themes and Concluding Thoughts
  • Appendix 1: How are the Three As Met in Your School?
  • Appendix 2: How Motivating is My Classroom?

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Do you understand what motivates the children in your class? How can you help children understand their own behavior? And what effects can this have on learning?

This fascinating book explores the interactions between teachers and students, presenting new ways of engaging young people in learning. Alan McLean's very practical approach shows teachers how to understand children's learning stances—the modes of behavior that children bring with them to the classroom. Linking this to specific teaching methods, he shows how teachers can shape their teaching to help children learn more effectively.

Chapters cover:

- What makes pupils tick?

- What pupils do to motivate themselves

- Understanding children's emotions

- What teachers can do to motivate pupils

- Personality styles and how to work with them effectively

- Children's learning stances

Alan McLean is Principal Educational Psychologist at Glasgow City Council.


Table Of Contents:

  • PART ONE: WHAT MAKES PUPILS TICK
  • What Makes Pupils Tick
  • What Pupils Need
  • PART TWO: WHAT PUPILS DO TO MOTIVATE THEMSELVES
  • What Pupils Do to Motivate Themselves
  • What Pupils Need to Meet Their Needs for Themselves
  • How Resilience Shapes How Pupils Meet Their Needs
  • How Pupils Feel about Themselves: Their Emotions as Their Personal Guide
  • PART THREE: WHAT TEACHERS DO
  • What Teachers Do to Motivate Their Pupils
  • Teaching Styles
  • PART FOUR: HOW PUPILS ADAPT
  • The Learning Stances
  • The Layers of the Matrix
  • PART FIVE: THE STANCE-SPECIFIC TEACHING STYLES AND ENERGIZERS
  • The Opposing Reaction
  • The Alarming and Draining Reaction
  • The Hiding Reaction
  • The Exasperating Reaction
  • The Positive Learning Stances
  • Recap, Recurring Themes and Concluding Thoughts
  • Appendix 1: How are the Three As Met in Your School?
  • Appendix 2: How Motivating is My Classroom?

Recent Product Reviews:

some supportive information, useful and will be used as part of my mentoring role to engage learners
Miss Kayleigh Robinson, Health & Social Care, Tresham Institute
This book keeps the reader focused by looking at different ways to motivate and make the classrooom experience a good one for the students.
Mrs Cheryl Hine, Teacher Training, Leeds City College
Relevant and inspiring for practitioners in classrooms and with groups of children and young children in a variety of learning contexts. Practitioners can also use ideas with children and young people in a variety of learning groups.Comprehensive reference list to enable further reading supporting studies to applications
Dr Estelle Martin, Education , UNIVERSITY CAMPUS SUFFOLK
'It is helpful at least now and then for language teachers to read a book on a key topic - such as this one - which has drawn on a substantially different literature than that which is normally consulted by writers in out field...Extremely accessible and reader friendly. Highly recommended' - The Teacher Trainer Journal ''If you want to understand what makes for a motivated (or a de-motivated) learner in comtemporary classrooms, you could not do better than read, understand and apply the insights of Motivating Every Learner' - Scottish Educational Review

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