Supporting Students' Motivation

<p>This is a book about teachers' classroom motivating styles. Motivating style is the interpersonal tone and face-to-face behavior the teacher relies on when trying to motivate students to engage in classroom activities and procedures. The over-arching goal of the book is to help teachers work through the professional developmental process to learn how to provide instruction in ways that students will find to be motivationally-enriching satisfying and engagement-generating.</p> <p>To realize this goal the book features six parts: Part 1: Introduction introduces what teachers are to support-namely student motivation; Part 2: Motivating Style explains what a supportive motivating style is; Part 3: How to overviews the recommended motivationally-supportive instructional strategies one-by-one and step-by-step; Part 4: Workshop walks the reader through the skill-building workshop experience; Part 5: Benefits details all the student teacher and classroom benefits that come from an improved motivating style; and Part 6: Getting Started discusses<br>ways to begin using these skills in the classroom.</p> <p>Based on a successful workshop program run by the authors teachers successfully improve their classroom motivating style. In doing so they experience gains in their teaching skill and efficacy job satisfaction a renewed passion for teaching and a more satisfying relationship with their students. This multiauthored book provides teachers with the practical concrete step-by-step skill-based how to they need to develop a highly supportive motivating style.</p>