The Will to Learn: Cultivating Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own (Corwin Teaching Essentials)

Student demotivation is experienced as painfor students, for us, for everyone. But heres the good news: student demotivation is not inevitable. Its not "a sign of the times"; its not "kids these days;" its not "because of COVID." Instead, its a symptom of the fact that modern education has lost touch with several key realities: Every one of our students wants to want to learn Every school in the world can be both productive and humaneachievement and wellness arent opposed to one another but instead are friends As teachers, you and I have an outlandish (though not omnipotent) influence on the degree to which students in our classrooms experience the will to learn, and The most powerful strategies for cultivating student motivation are far from complicated In this book, acclaimed teacher-writer Dave Stuart Jr. brings a new theory of student motivation to the educational conversation. Along the way, he shares The five key beliefs beneath all motivated student learning Ten high-yield, low-effort methods for cultivating student motivation in all kinds of classrooms for all kinds of students, all year long Tactics for overcoming over fifty common hang-ups that teachers and students experience with student motivation Lets do the work, colleague. And: lets do it with care.