Learning Grows

The Science of Motivation for the Classroom Teacher

Andrew C. Watson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

174 Seiten

2019
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
9781475833331 (ISBN)

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Written for teachers—and everyone interested in teaching and learning—Learning Deepens helps classrooms flourish by fostering students’ intrinsic motivation. By interleaving psychology and neuroscience research with dozens of practical classroom examples, Learning Deepens makes these two theories both clear and immediately useful.

Combining a lively voice with scientific research, Learning Grows explores the fascinating and useful world of student motivation.

Written for teachers—and everyone interested in teaching and learning—Learning Grows helps classrooms flourish by fostering students’ intrinsic motivation.

Part I delves into Mindset. Although seemingly well known, this theory is often oversimplified and widely misunderstood. By exploring its step-by-step historical development, we can use it more flexibly and effectively to help learners ‘charge!’ when they might otherwise ‘retreat.’

Part II enters the paradoxical world of Stereotype Threat. A surprising cascade of counter-intuitive effects can cause students to struggle in school—not because they don’t care, but because they work too hard. The right classroom strategies block this demotivational pathway, and thereby foster student learning.

By interleaving psychology and neuroscience research with dozens of practical classroom examples, Learning Grows makes these two theories both clear and immediately useful.

Learning Grows is the second book in the series “A Teacher’s Guide to the Learning Brain.” The first book, Learning Begins, studies the science of working memory and attention.

Teacher, author, professional development leader, Andrew Watson has been exploring classroom uses of brain research for over ten years. As founder and president of Translate the Brain, he has travelled to 17 states (and four continents) to work with teachers, students, and parents. He edits the Learning and the Brain blog, and speaks regularly at national conferences. Visit www.TranslateTheBrain.com.

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Mindset

Chapter 1: Starting at the Fourth Step

Chapter 2: Second Step: Rehearsing, not Performing

Chapter 3: The First Step (at Last)

Chapter 4: The Mindset Controversy and FAQs

Part II: Stereotype Threat

Chapter 5: (De)Motivation and Stereotypes

Chapter 6: Changing the Motivational Climate

Chapter 7: Assessment and Stereotype Threat FAQs

References

About the Author

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.05.2019
Reihe/Serie	A Teacher’s Guide to the Learning Brain
Zusatzinfo	22 b/w illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 229 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-13	9781475833331 / 9781475833331
Zustand	Neuware