Motivating students to learn / Jere E. Brophy

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Student motivation: the teacher's perspective -- 2. Establishing your classroom as a learning community -- 3. Supporting student's confidence as learners -- 4. Rebuilding discouraged students' confidence and willingness to learn -- 5. Providing extrinsic incentives -- 6. Connecting with students' intrinsic motivation -- 7. Stimulating students' motivation to learn -- 8. Socializing uninterested or alienated students -- 9. Adapting to group and individual differences in students' motivational patterns -- 10. Looking back and ahead: integrating motivational goals into your planning and teaching.

Written specifically for teachers, this book offers a wealth of research-based principles for motivating students to learn. Its focus on motivational principles rather than motivation theorists or theories leads naturally into discussion of specific classroom strategies. Throughout the book these principles and strategies are tied to the realities of contemporary schools (e.g., curriculum goals) and classrooms (e.g., student differences, classroom dynamics). The author employs an eclectic approach to motivation that shows how to effectively integrate the use of extrinsic and intrinsic strategies. Guidelines are provided for adapting motivational principles to group and individual differences and for doing "repair work" with students who have become discouraged or disaffected learners.