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"A captivating topic for teachers, as we all have students who are capable and yet choose not to learn."
—Melissa Miller, Sixth-Grade Teacher
Lynch Middle School, Farmington, AR
"The authors are clearly passionate about the need to uncover and build upon students' desire and motivation to learn."
—Paul Parkison, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
University of Southern Indiana
Discover how to release the will to learn in all students!
Students who have a strong sense of self-worth and know what they can achieve are more likely to be fully engaged in the learning process and capable of significant academic achievements. This updated edition of Connecting With Students' Will to Succeed offers practical lessons to help all students channel their emotions and energy into becoming positive, self-motivated, and self-directed learners.
Focusing on the concept of conation—"the internal drive that pushes one beyond ordinary expectations and accomplishments"—the authors offer research-based strategies that enable teachers to nurture self-esteem in students and inspire learners with low expectations to strive for excellence. This revised resource offers:
Updated research that informs teaching methods
Chapter-opening quotes from teachers and students
Additional grade-specific individual and group activities that include instructional objectives for specific content areas
Suggestions for both formal and informal assessments in each chapter
Strategies That Promote Student Engagement is a road map for connecting the heart, mind, and will of teachers and students to the lifelong pursuit of learning.
Contents
Foreword by Raymond F. Morgan
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
1. Understanding Conation
Where Does the Will to Live, Learn, and Succeed Reside?
What Is Conation?
How Is Conation Different From Extrinsic Motivation?
What Is Conative Intelligence (CI)?
2. Captivate, Connect, and Cultivate: Creating Lessons That Promote Learning
Conative Strategies for Engaging Learners
Designing Lessons That Reach the Heart of Learning
Using Teaching Strategies Effectively in the Conative Domain
Increasing Student Self-Efficacy With Choice
Achieving High Performance in Spite of the Odds
Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies
3. Where Learning Lives: Instructional Activities That Engage Students
What Is Learning?
What Is Courage?
Gholar and Riggs? Conative Taxonomy
Conation and Character Building: The Strength and Spirit of Learning
What Is Character?
Character Development
When Conation, Courage, and Character Become One
Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies
4. An Invitation to Learn: Awakening and Motivating Your Classroom
Inviting Success
Connecting to Students? Lives Outside of School
Ensuring the Academic Success of Adolescents
Conation Moves the Heart of a Teacher
The Origins of Success and Failure
Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies
5. For All of Them, I Teach: Reflecting on Your Teaching Philosophy
Authentic Teaching in the Conative Domain
Using Diverse Teaching Styles
Using STARS to Support the Will to Learn
Implementing the Four I?s of Teacher Leadership
Promoting Conation Schoolwide
Lessons From the Heart of Learning: Instructional Strategies
6. The Bridge Between the Desire to Achieve and Reality: Putting It All Together
The Will
The Bridge Metaphor
Insights Regarding Conation: Next Steps
Resources
Lexicon of Two Hundred Words, Thoughts, Phrases, Attitudes, and Expectations That Build Conative Connections
Teaching to the Test: A Reflection
References
Index
