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The Daily Disciplines of Leadership: How to Improve Student Achievement, Staff Motivation, and Personal Organization

The Daily Disciplines of Leadership is a comprehensive and down-to-earth manual for school leaders that addresses the daunting challenges that today’s principals, superintendents, and teacher-leaders face on a daily basis. Written by Douglas Reeves– a leading authority on academic standards, performance assessment, and accountability– the information in this book is based on his extensive experience working with educators, administrators, and school board members from across the country and internationally. Reeves discusses the basic purpose of leadership, presents four key leadership archetypes, and offers practical recommendations for action. Covering a wide range of topics– from accountability systems to personal communications– this book will serve as the ‘go to’ resource for novice and seasoned school leaders alike.

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Motivation to Learn: Transforming Classroom Culture to Support Student Achievement (Classroom Insights from Educational Psychology)

Harness the power of motivation to transform the learning experience!
 
When properly channeled, motivation propels learning forward. Yet teachers across all grade levels and disciplines struggle to recognize and cultivate this dynamic, social force in the classroom. This essential resource proves that all students are motivated to learn, and provides authentic tools to create and sustain a classroom community that is highly engaged. You’ll discover:

Reflection activities that promote student voice and self-efficacy as well as assess existing motivation levels Case studies and best practices based on current motivation theory and research Strategies to design meaningful learning tasks and build positive relationships with students and colleagues.

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Motivation for Achievement: Possibilities for Teaching and Learning

Understanding student and teacher motivation and developing strategies to foster motivation for students at all levels of performance are essential to effective teaching. This text is designed to help prospective and practicing teachers achieve these goals. Its premise is that current research and theory about motivation offer hope and possibilities for educators —teachers, parents, coaches, and administrators—to enhance motivation for achievement. The orientation draws primarily on social-cognitive perspectives that have generated much research relevant to classroom practice.

Ideal for any course that is dedicated to, or includes coverage of, motivation and achievement, the text focuses on two key roles teachers play in supporting and cultivating motivation in the classroom: establishing the classroom structure and instruction that provides the environment for optimal motivation, engagement, and learning; and helping students develop the tools that will enable them to be self-regulated learners and develop their potential.

Pedagogical features aid the understanding of concepts and the application to practice:

Strategy boxes present guidelines and strategies for using the various concepts.

Exhibit boxes include forms for different purposes (for example, goal setting), examples of teacher beliefs and practices, and samples of student work.

Reflection boxes stimulate readers’ thinking about motivational issues inherent in the topics, their experiences, and their beliefs.

A motivational toolbox at the end of each chapter helps readers identify important points to think about, lingering questions, strategies to use now, and strategies to develop in the future.

 

NEW IN THE THIRD EDITION

Updated research and new topics are added throughout as warranted by current inquiry in the field.

Chapters are reorganized to provide more coherence and to account for new findings.

New and updated material is included on issues of educational reform, standards for achievement, and high-stakes testing, and on achievement goal theory, especially regarding performance goals and the distinction between performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals as relevant to classroom practice.

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The Motivation Myth: the simple yet powerful key to unlock human potential and create inspired performance and achievement

The Motivation Myth: the simple yet powerful key to unlock human potential and create inspired performance and achievement Most people believe praise, appreciation, and compliments are great ways to motivate and inspire people. Many think these communication tools are good people skills and are useful everywhere ~ from parenting to the boardroom, from friendship to leadership, from relationships to coaching. People mistakenly believe these tools are the keys to unlock human potential. That is a myth, says Mattison Grey and Jonathan Manske. Praise, compliments, and appreciation do not do what people think they do. They do not unlock human potential. In this provocative and compelling book, Grey and Manske debunk the myth that performance, achievement, confidence, and connection ~ at work, at school, and at home ~ are improved by these communication tools. Fortunately, there is an alternative, acknowledgement. This communication tool is the cure for underperformance, lack of self-confidence, and ineffective motivation techniques. Grey and Manske have seen it over and over again ~ acknowledgement changes lives! Acknowledgement effectively produces the results ~ increased performance, motivation and inspiration, and improved self-confidence ~ these other communication tools try to accomplish but do not. The Motivation Myth draws on scientific research, anecdotal stories from interesting people, and thirty-five plus years of combined experience in using and teaching the tool of acknowledgement. Grey and Manske reveal the simple yet effective communication tool of acknowledgment and how to work with it to motivate and inspire with integrity and grace. Acknowledgement is the invisible language of results! Table of Contents 1 ~ Introduction 2 ~ Why I Wrote This Book 3 ~ The Myth 4 ~ Compliments, Praise, And Appreciation Do Not Work 5 ~ Acknowledgement ~ What It Is And What It Is Not 6 ~ How To Acknowledge 7 ~ Acknowledgement As Feedback 8 ~ Self-Acknowledgement 9 ~ Using Acknowledgement In Team Meetings 10 ~ Acknowledgement In Leadership 11 ~ Acknowledgement In Sports 12 ~ Acknowledgement In Parenting 13 ~ Acknowledgement In Relationships 14 ~ Acknowledgement In Sales 15 ~ Acknowledgement In Peak Performance 16 ~ Because You Can