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Discover how to motivate students in the classroom, using the elements of EMPOWER exploration, motivation, participation, openness, willingness, empathy, and resilience. Make school a positive, meaningful experience in your students lives and cultivate intrinsic motivation. This highly practical resource offers enjoyable, engaging classroom activities, as well as strategies for refining teaching practices, incorporating student values into course content, fostering the development of soft skills, and deeply connecting with learners.

How this book will EMPOWER you:

Understand what values are and how they are different from preferences and goals. Discover how to help students determine which values they want to enact at school and in life. Examine how to incorporate values work into the classroom curriculum in all disciplines. Explore examples of classroom experiences that highlight the importance of student empowerment. Learn how to bring your own values to the classroom to become a better teacher and colleague.

Contents:
Introduction: Empowering Students to Transform What School Means

Part I: Activities That Empower Students
Chapter 1: Exploration
Chapter 2: Motivation
Chapter 3: Participation
Chapter 4: Openness
Chapter 5: Willingness
Chapter 6: Empathy
Chapter 7: Resilience

Part II: Strategies That Empower Students
Chapter 8: Empowering Dialogue
Chapter 9: Empowering Partnerships
Chapter 10: Empowering Collaborations
Chapter 11: Empowering Curriculum
Chapter 12: Empowering Inquiry
Chapter 13: Empowering Yourself

Conclusion: Paths to Empowerment
Appendix: Examples of Values References and Resources Index

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3 thoughts on "EMPOWER Your Students: Tools to Inspire a Meaningful School Experience, Grades 6-12 (Increase Motivation and Engagement in the Classroom)"

  1. M. Aalberse says:
    November 24, 2017 at 2:08 am

    A gem It’s surely a bit blasé from my side, but these days my reaction often is « OK, yet another book about ACT… (with quite a bit of « more of the same » feelings showing up in me) 

  2. Christine Sleeter says:
    November 24, 2017 at 2:02 am

    A welcome book Empower your Students helps teachers frame what they do in the classroom — their curriculum, their interactions and relationships with students, relationships with colleagues and with parents — from what is meaningful to the teacher to what is meaningful to the students. This book shows teachers how to open the door to invite in what students see as meaningful. The first half provides detailed activities to engage students in identifying and then learning to work with their own values to make…

  3. Amy R. Murrell says:
    November 24, 2017 at 1:52 am

    and I am sure you will do if you read this book – highly recommended, five stars In Empower Your Students, Porosoff and Weinstein guide readers who work with youth through the process of transforming avoidant school behavior into empathy, kindness, and academic consistency. The book is divided into two parts. The first section is full of creative exercises directed at empowering students to identify meaningful concepts and implement them in a school setting. These activities are often accompanied by reproducible worksheets. The value of these resources is further increased…

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