Meeting Students Where They Live: Motivation in Urban Schools
By Midas / November 13, 2017 / 3 Comments / Motivation
How can teachers connect with and motivate students to embrace learning? According to Jonathan C. Erwin, the secret lies in forging positive relationships with students by meeting their individual social-emotional needs.
Inspiring the Best in Students includes step-by-step instructions for dozens of classroom activities for grades 3 12 that help build student-teacher relationships while teaching both content and skills. Also included is a thorough overview of William Glasser’s Choice Theory and such core teaching and learning concepts as internal control psychology and total behavior.
The more students are given the freedom to make choices in a safe environment while also having fun, the more their enthusiasm for learning deepens. By following the advice in this book, you can ensure that the students in your class will remain engaged and inspired to achieve their best.
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Regurgitated information Avoid this book. There are soo many better books than this one. Curwin’s advice is dated and sometimes, just plain wrong. None of the ideas presented in this book are new or novel. All of the information in here is taught at low level education classes at any institution of higher learning.I would only recommend this book to people who do not actually like urban schools, as a way for you to confirm biased opinions.
A thought provoking and highly useful read for any inner city school teacher Motivation is the first step in any great education. “Meeting Students Where They Live: Motivation in Urban Schools” is a discussion of how to get urban students, usually the ones hardest to get to stay and school in succeed, with sky-high drop out rates among other issues. Richard Curwin urges school leaders not to antagonize these students, but instead invite them and encourage them, to get them to embrace education willingly instead of by force. “Meeting Students Where They Live” is a…
Check this out! This book provides teachers with some insightful and thought provoking ideas about “how to meet students where they are” which is definitely needed in today’s classroom.