Motivating Your Students: Before You Can Teach Them, You Have to Reach Them

Motivating Your Students provides real-life, practical suggestions, with a focus on lesson planning and teaching strategies. It emphasizes effective communication strategies and presentation skills for classroom use to inspire students to enjoy learning. This book will help teachers to do the following: understand and meet students' motivational needs; present information and structure education activities to match students' diverse personalities and learning styles; be more persuasive and influential; get and keep students' attention so that they participate more fully; use storytelling as a powerful tool to make abstract concepts more conceptual; and make each lesson more memorable. For educators, trainers, and teachers.