Product Description: Great tool for English skills

Stresses the importance of students developing positive self-concepts, teachers encouraging this development, and schools providing warmth, cooperative spirit, and positive expectations

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Presents chemical, physical, nuclear, electron, crystal, biological, and geological data on all the chemical elements

Product Description: This graduate-level textbook provides a straight-forward and mathematically rigorous introduction to the standard theory of point processes. The author's aim is to present an account which concentrates on the essentials and which places an emphasis on conveying an intuitive understanding of the subject...read more

Product Description: Designed for professionals and graduate students in the personality/social, military, and educational psychology, and assessment/evaluation communities, this volume explores the state of the art in motivational research for individuals and teams from multiple theoretical viewpoints as well as their effects in both schools and training environments...read more

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The learner's motivation to learn the foreign language is absolutely critical to success. Teaching and Researching: Motivation combines Dornyei's own well-known theory of language motivation, with a comprehensive review of both the psychological and the second language literature.

Product Description: When students are self-motivated, they work harder at learning even if resources are inadequate. This book argues that students and teachers waste time and energy because the curriculum rests on flawed mental models. Change requires theories of motivation and learning based on advances in neurobiology and cognitive studies...read more

This text offers practical information and vicarious practice for both beginning and veteran teachers to become more knowledgeable, skilled, and therefore effective in their work. The text explains to teachers why it is important to have an understanding of their students’ interests, styles of learning, and backgrounds in order to meet the unique needs of each individual student, and why having the ability to manage the learning environment, motivate students in the learning environment, and offer instruction is itself motivating and contributes to students learning what they need to acquire. It will help teachers develop their skills as instructional specialists, motivators, managers, and problem solvers in order to meet the expectations for their students. Stressed throughout the book is that teachers must find ways to teach their students in ways that students find interesting, relevant, engaging, and understandable, and that if students do not see what they are learning as interesting, if they do not recognize it as being relevant to their lives either now or in the future, if they are not meaningfully connected to it, and if they do not view it as being understandable to the degree that they can be successful, they will not achieve their greatest potentials. This book will help teachers to get their students to achieve at high levels in demonstrating what they have learned through the application of these intertwined areas of student motivation and classroom management, which are considered critical for best practice in teaching in classrooms today.

Product Description: Help teachers improve instruction and student achievement with research-based methods for organizing curricular goals, designing lessons, integrating assessment with instruction, developing a culturally sensitive environment, and more.

Product Description: Families play a critical role in helping young children develop a solid academic foundation and love of learning. Numerous examples have proven time and again that children’s learning behavior is strongest when reinforced with activities, social interactions, and play...read more

Product Description: In order to effectively use games in the classroom, teachers and parents need to agree on games positive functions toward students learning, decide and select good educational games relevant to content and tasks in the classroom, and disseminate their acquired knowledge into the teaching field...read more

Product Description: This valuable resource offers a research-based approach for helping youth develop academic self-regulation skills, highlighting the relationship among choice, willpower, and effort. Over 70 interventions are provided to enhance students' self-control and self-discipline in the following areas: Planning--Setting academic goals that are relevant, valuable, interesting and achievable; Problem Solving--Using strategies to attain goals, overcome problems, make adjustments, and get help when necessary; Self-Evaluation--Comparing results of efforts with intentions and attaching meaning to outcomes...read more

Product Description: Drive boredom out of your classroom – and keep it out – with the student-engagement strategies in this book. You’ll learn how to gain and sustain the attention of your students from the moment the bell rings. Perfect for teachers of all subjects and grade levels, these activities go head-to-head with student boredom and disengagement, resulting in class time that’s more efficient, more educational, and loads more fun! Contents include: Strategies to Begin a Lesson Strategies to End a Lesson Strategies for Solo/Independent Work Strategies for the Whole Group Author Bryan Harris, an expert in student engagement and classroom management, has extensive experience in K-12 motivation and brain-based learning...read more

Product Description: Engagement is a hot topic these days among educators at all levels and in all disciplines. Standards, curricula, and assessment tools have been built and rebuilt to provide excellence and achievement, but now we're faced with the one variable that can turn all this effort into ash: the students...read more

Product Description: In their second collaboration, Wilcox and Angelis tell the stories of high school educators who embody best practices in their day-to-day activities--practices that consistently lead to higher student academic achievement across the core subjects for all students...read more