Motivating and Inspiring Students: Strategies to Awaken the Learner

Bringing motivation and inspiration to the classroom is not easy. With this practical resource, you’ll discover a results-driven framework—based on a six-level hierarchy of student needs and goals—that you can use to provide engaging instruction to students. The authors share comprehensive understandings of the nature of motivation and inspiration and detail-specific strategies to connect with your students.

• Gain specific chapter-ending guidance on how to use the book’s strategies.
• Consider scenarios that portray how the book’s suggestions might play out in the classroom.
• Review mindsets, dispositions, and behaviors that result in negative, unhelpful thinking and in positive, productive thinking.
• Study step-by-step processes that ensure students’ needs get met in individual classrooms.
• Use the Awaken the Learner Snapshot Student Survey to assess students’ levels of engagement, attention, motivation, and inspiration in school.