| View Larger Image | Motivating Students Who Don't Care: Successful Techniques for Educators | Perfect Paperbackby Allen Mendler (Author)
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| | Binding: | Perfect Paperback | | Publisher: | Solution Tree | | Page Count: | 80 Pages | | Publication Date: | May 01, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 20,650th |
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Product Description
Motivating Students Who Don't Care is a comprehensive and practical guide for reconnecting with discouraged students and reawakening their excitement and enthusiasm for learning.With proven strategies from the classroom, this resource identifies five effective processes the reader can use to reawaken motivation in students who aren't prepared, don't care, and won't work. These processes include emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power, building relationships, and expressing enthusiasm. Each process is fully explained and illustrated with proven strategies from the classroom. Questions for reflection will help the reader identify motivating strategies and apply the five key processes to the challenge of changing students lives. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 10 reviews)
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Good tips for all by C. Williams (Chatham, VA)  4 Stars
September 12, 2009
I deal with many unmotivated students. While I realize tht this is primarily a learned behavior and it takes time to unlearn it, this book has several good strategies to help kids get back into the "want to learn" mode. The ideas of emphasizing effort and restoring hope of passing or doing well in the class is difficult under the best circumstances. The book addresses these and, without being a spoiler, teaches teachers how to instill these in the students.
While the book does devote quite a bit to building character, (buzz word bingo there), it offers practical solutions to many of the problems that teachers face in today's "short attention span" classrooms.
While not for everyone (some teachers are just not charismatic enough to connect with students), this book is an excellent resource and I can heartily recommend it for upper elem ed through secondary ed.
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What I thought about "Motivating Students Who Don't Care" by Janice A. Bussey  5 Stars
June 26, 2009
Very easy reading with some powerful and useful suggestions for dealing with a very difficult subgroup of our student population!
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A Fresh Approach to Motivating the Unmotivated by joel blaylock (allen, tx USA) 5 Stars
May 27, 2009
What a helpful little book. Insightful and to the point. Ideas you may not have used in a while, but really help to involve and motivate students. A great book you can read in an afternoon!
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Specific Tools to Use by Jewishmom (SoCal, USA) 5 Stars
May 11, 2009
Short and to the point. This book gives specific tools to use to gain and keep classroom respect and decorum. I have begun implementing some of the ideas in my already way out of control classroom. Thanks for your help!!
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Great by Ballard School Dist Employee (Huxley, IA USA) 5 Stars
June 20, 2008
Recieved item on time, right when we were told it would arrive. Book in very good condition.
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