Perspective!

The Secret to Student Motivation and Success
Tommie Mabry
Perspective!
February 2022 | 112 pages | Corwin
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Understand Where Your Students are Coming From!

The factors that influence students’ beliefs and attitudes about the value of formal education are complex and expansive, especially with respect to marginalized student populations. Motivational speaker and master storyteller Dr. Tommie Mabry builds from personal experiences as a child labeled “at risk” to promote empathy and understanding in motivating the success of youth.

Written in a clear style, this practical guide leads educators through shifting student perspectives on the value and benefits of formal schooling, beginning first with teacher self-examination of their own perspectives.  Perspective is a holistic construct that encompasses mindset, emotions, effort, and outcomes. Layered with effective methodologies, chapters address a range o­f critical topics important to this view of perspective, including extensive information on

  • Building positive relationships
  • Drawing on educators’ empathic capacity
  • Engendering trust
  • Practicing culturally responsive teaching
  • Igniting students’ passions

Written with an emphasis on marginalized students and adverse childhood experiences, the concepts and strategies are applicable across all student populations.

Contents

Publisher’s Acknowledgments

Publisher’s Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction

Introduction

Prologue

  • Chapter 1: Shut Up and Listen…Actively: Value the Voices of Others
  • Chapter 2: Should Is a Futile Word: Build Your Students Up With Principles
  • Chapter 3: Re-Examine Yourself: Dig Deep and Go Beyond Biases
  • Chapter 4: Know Their Strengths: Develop Positive Attitudes and Student Growth
  • Chapter 5: Put Yourself in Their Shoes: Understand and Respond to Their Whys
  • Chapter 6: Show Them You Care: Create Safe Spaces and Build Trust
  • Chapter 7: Get Them Moving: Engage Them with Kinesthetic and Collaborative Learning
  • Chapter 8: Your Students Will Teach You: Connect With Culturally Responsive Teaching
  • Chapter 9: Dreams Lead to Education: Capture Their Passions in Your Lessons
  • Chapter 10: What Shaped My Perspective?: Your Students Need You

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Description

Understand Where Your Students are Coming From!

The factors that influence students’ beliefs and attitudes about the value of formal education are complex and expansive, especially with respect to marginalized student populations. Motivational speaker and master storyteller Dr. Tommie Mabry builds from personal experiences as a child labeled “at risk” to promote empathy and understanding in motivating the success of youth.

Written in a clear style, this practical guide leads educators through shifting student perspectives on the value and benefits of formal schooling, beginning first with teacher self-examination of their own perspectives.  Perspective is a holistic construct that encompasses mindset, emotions, effort, and outcomes. Layered with effective methodologies, chapters address a range o­f critical topics important to this view of perspective, including extensive information on

  • Building positive relationships
  • Drawing on educators’ empathic capacity
  • Engendering trust
  • Practicing culturally responsive teaching
  • Igniting students’ passions

Written with an emphasis on marginalized students and adverse childhood experiences, the concepts and strategies are applicable across all student populations.

Contents

Publisher’s Acknowledgments

Publisher’s Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction

Introduction

Prologue

  • Chapter 1: Shut Up and Listen…Actively: Value the Voices of Others
  • Chapter 2: Should Is a Futile Word: Build Your Students Up With Principles
  • Chapter 3: Re-Examine Yourself: Dig Deep and Go Beyond Biases
  • Chapter 4: Know Their Strengths: Develop Positive Attitudes and Student Growth
  • Chapter 5: Put Yourself in Their Shoes: Understand and Respond to Their Whys
  • Chapter 6: Show Them You Care: Create Safe Spaces and Build Trust
  • Chapter 7: Get Them Moving: Engage Them with Kinesthetic and Collaborative Learning
  • Chapter 8: Your Students Will Teach You: Connect With Culturally Responsive Teaching
  • Chapter 9: Dreams Lead to Education: Capture Their Passions in Your Lessons
  • Chapter 10: What Shaped My Perspective?: Your Students Need You

References

References

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The Secret to Student Motivation and Success

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February 2022 | 112 pages | Corwin

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Understand Where Your Students are Coming From!

The factors that influence students’ beliefs and attitudes about the value of formal education are complex and expansive, especially with respect to marginalized student populations. Motivational speaker and master storyteller Dr. Tommie Mabry builds from personal experiences as a child labeled “at risk” to promote empathy and understanding in motivating the success of youth.

Written in a clear style, this practical guide leads educators through shifting student perspectives on the value and benefits of formal schooling, beginning first with teacher self-examination of their own perspectives.  Perspective is a holistic construct that encompasses mindset, emotions, effort, and outcomes. Layered with effective methodologies, chapters address a range o­f critical topics important to this view of perspective, including extensive information on

  • Building positive relationships
  • Drawing on educators’ empathic capacity
  • Engendering trust
  • Practicing culturally responsive teaching
  • Igniting students’ passions

Written with an emphasis on marginalized students and adverse childhood experiences, the concepts and strategies are applicable across all student populations.


Table Of Contents:

  • Publisher’s Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Introduction
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1: Shut Up and Listen…Actively: Value the Voices of Others
  • Chapter 2: Should Is a Futile Word: Build Your Students Up With Principles
  • Chapter 3: Re-Examine Yourself: Dig Deep and Go Beyond Biases
  • Chapter 4: Know Their Strengths: Develop Positive Attitudes and Student Growth
  • Chapter 5: Put Yourself in Their Shoes: Understand and Respond to Their Whys
  • Chapter 6: Show Them You Care: Create Safe Spaces and Build Trust
  • Chapter 7: Get Them Moving: Engage Them with Kinesthetic and Collaborative Learning
  • Chapter 8: Your Students Will Teach You: Connect With Culturally Responsive Teaching
  • Chapter 9: Dreams Lead to Education: Capture Their Passions in Your Lessons
  • Chapter 10: What Shaped My Perspective?: Your Students Need You
  • References

Recent Product Reviews:

I am extremely excited about the prospects for this book and the impact it will make on children via their teachers. Dr. Mabry is uniquely qualified to write Perspective because “he is Perspectives.” Dr. Mabry’s personal story is extraordinarily profound. He was one of those so called “at risk” youth he writes and speaks about. In hindsight, it is clear and evident that Dr. Mabry was brilliant as a youth but his brilliance was simply misplaced. In Perspective: The Secret to Student Motivation and Success, Dr. Mabry provides educators with a blueprint for reaching difficult to reach children. Although Perspective is well researched, Dr. Mabry knows the unmotivated child he has written about intimately because he epitomizes that child – a child who went from “At Risk” Tommie Mabry to Tommie Mabry, Ph. D.
Baruti Kafele, Author of The Equity and Social Justice Education 50
In this important new book, Mabry shows us how student voices, and listening to the wisdom they often contain, can help schools to find ways to boost student motivation and engagement in learning. Drawing on his vast experience with schools he reminds us that in order to make schools more responsive to student needs we must have the courage to incorporate the views of our primary constituents - students, to create the schools we need and that our students deserve.
Pedro A. Noguera, Dean of USC Rossier School of Education

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