Understanding student and teacher motivation and developing strategies to foster motivation for students at all levels of performance are essential to effective teaching. This text is designed to help prospective and practicing teachers achieve these goals. Its premise is that current research and theory about motivation offer hope and possibilities for educators ―teachers, parents, coaches, and administrators―to enhance motivation for achievement. The orientation draws primarily on social-cognitive perspectives that have generated much research relevant to classroom practice. Ideal for any course that is dedicated to, or includes coverage of, motivation and achievement, the text focuses on two key roles teachers play in supporting and cultivating motivation in the classroom: establishing the classroom structure and instruction that provides the environment for optimal motivation, engagement, and learning; and helping students develop the tools that will enable them to be self-regulated learners and develop their potential. Pedagogical features aid the understanding of concepts and the application to practice: Strategy boxes present guidelines and strategies for using the various concepts. Exhibit boxes include forms for different purposes (for example, goal setting), examples of teacher beliefs and practices, and samples of student work. Reflection boxes stimulate readers’ thinking about motivational issues inherent in the topics, their experiences, and their beliefs. A motivational toolbox at the end of each chapter helps readers identify important points to think about, lingering questions, strategies to use now, and strategies to develop in the future.   NEW IN THE THIRD EDITION Updated research and new topics are added throughout as warranted by current inquiry in the field. Chapters are reorganized to provide more coherence and to account for new findings. New and updated material is included on issues of educational reform, standards for achievement, and high-stakes testing, and on achievement goal theory, especially regarding performance goals and the distinction between performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals as relevant to classroom practice.

Part One of this book discusses the curricular cases, curricular changes, needed changes in instructional delivery, and the visible and invisible dropout. Part Two provides new data on delinquency and dropouts, alternative centers for learning, noncurricular changes, immigrant and seasonal farm workers, and current prevention practices. This book is directed at teachers, school administrators, educational policymakers, and anyone concerned with dropout prevention. The programs and strategies outlined in this edition not only provide positive direction, they can improve the educational quality in any school system

Product Description: First-Year Writing describes significant language patterns in college writing today, how they are different from expert academic writing, and how to inform teaching and assessment with corpus-based linguistic and rhetorical genre analysis.    

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Explains the standards movement and offers a step-by-step plan to build a standards-based instructional system based on achievement, not attendance

Product Description: This study develops a model to predict student achievement; furthers development of quality of school life models; links and predicts learning outcomes from the way one uses language; tests Bernstein's theory of Language Discontinuity; and develops a new causal model for school outcomes...read more

Looks at a variety of education reforms and innovations over the past one hundred years to find the best approach to teaching.

Argues that the contemporary claims of school failure are wrong and that there is no credible evidence or data for evaluation

Shows how to analyze the decision to drop out of school, offers advice on setting goals, and discusses educational alternatives

Product Description: From the back cover: This newly expanded edition has been divided into two major parts. Part One discusses the curricular cases, curricular changes, needed changes in instructional delivery, and the visible and invisible dropout. The suggested reforms will have an immediate salutary effect on both schools and community...read more

Many believe that American education can only be improved with a sizable infusion of new resources into the nation's schools. Others find little evidence that large increases in spending lead to improvements in educational performance. Do additional school resources actually make any difference?The evidence on this question offers a striking paradox. Many analysts have found that extra school resources play a negligible role in improving student achievement while children are in school. Yet many economists have gathered data showing that students who attend well-endowed schools grow up to enjoy better job market success than children whose education takes place in schools where resources are limited. For example, children who attend schools with a lower pupil-teacher ratio and a better educated teaching staff appear to earn higher wages as adults than children who attend poorer schools.This book, which grew out of a Brookings conference, brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss the evidence on the link between school resources and educational and economic outcomes. In a lively exchange of views, they debate whether additional spending can improve the performance of the nation's schools.In addition to editor Gary Burtless, the contributors include Eric Hanushek, University of Rochester; James Heckman, University of Chicago; Julian Betts, University of California, San Diego; Richard Murnane, Harvard University; Larry Hedges, University of Chicago; and Christopher Jencks, Northwestern University.Dialogues on Public Policy

Book by Bronzaft, Arline L.

Product Description: Until the age of 16, children have most decisions made for them. This book starts at the point when they become decision-makers for their own future. It raises the following questions and suggests possible answers. Whether to: continue education either full or part time, leave school and take a job instead, leave school and join a training scheme...read more

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