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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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Manage Your Depression Through Exercise: The Motivation You Need to Start and Maintain an Exercise Program

“Jane Baxter shows a path out of depression using regular exercise . . . and empowers people to take more control of their recovery as they become healthier and happier.”
–Robert L. DuPont, MD
AUTHOR OF THE ANXIETY CURE AND THE ANXIETY CURE FOR KIDS

“The authoritative resource on exercise and its application to treating and preventing depressive symptoms and episodes . . . Dr. Baxter s book is an essential part of contemporary management of depression.”
–Roger S. McIntyre, MD, FRCPC
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND PHARMACOLGY, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO; HEAD, MOOD DISORDERS PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY UNIT

By 2020, depression is expected to be a leading cause of disability worldwide, second only to heart disease. Treatment options for this widespread disorder typically include everything from pills to psychotherapy. Despite the attention the medical and pharmaceutical communities have given to depression, and despite the many treatments available, millions of people fail to find relief from their depressive symptoms, whether mild or severe.
One often overlooked solution for depression is the body’s ability to heal itself through exercise. While exercise may not be the answer for everyone, the facts speak for themselves. Research has proven that exercise helps to lessen or even reverse symptoms of depression. Whether depressed readers are aware of the research or not, most of them already know that exercise is good for them they’ve most likely been told more than once. They know they need to do it, but many can’t muster the energy or motivation to take action. Manage Your Depression through Exercise is the only book on the market that meets depressed readers where they are at emotionally, physically, and spiritually and takes them from the difficult first step of getting started toward a brighter future.
Through inspiring facts that explain the neuroscience behind how movement helps mood, the Move & Smile Five-Week Activity Plan, the Challenge & Correct Formula to end negative self-talk, and words of encouragement, author Jane Baxter uses facts, inspiration, compassion, and honesty to help readers get beyond feelings of inertia one step at a time. Includes reproducible charts, activities list, positive inner-dialogue comebacks, and photos illustrating various exercises.

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Handbook of Competence and Motivation

This important handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative review of achievement motivation and establishes the concept of competence as an organizing framework for the field. The editors synthesize diverse perspectives on why and how individuals are motivated in school, work, sports, and other settings. Written by leading investigators, chapters reexamine central constructs in achievement motivation; explore the impact of developmental, contextual, and sociocultural factors; and analyze the role of self-regulatory processes. Focusing on the ways in which achievement is motivated by the desire to experience competence and avoid experiencing incompetence, the volume integrates disparate theories and findings and sets forth a coherent agenda for future research.

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Change Your Day, Not Your Life: A Realistic Guide to Sustained Motivation, More Productivity and the Art Of Working Well

Increase your employees’—and your own—productivity at work

If you look out over today’s workforce, you’ll find millions of hard-working people who are overly tired, overly stressed, and less than enchanted with work. For organizations around the globe, this represents an incredible opportunity to improve productivity, talent retention, innovation, and overall profitability.

The great paradox here is that when you take hard-working, responsible adults with a desire to succeed and a sense of responsibility and drop them into our demanding work culture, they tend to default to a way of life that sabotages their ability and best efforts to reach their goals. That’s where author Andy Core comes in. Change Your Day, Not Your Life offers a proven strategy to help you become energized at work. This book is designed as a resource for work-life balance, a tool to help you increase productivity during the final two hours of work by up to 47 percent, content to fuel employee communication, and a curriculum that departments can use in weekly or monthly meetings to keep everyone working at their best.

Author Andy Core is a credentialed, award-winning thought leader on increasing employee engagement, productivity, and wellness motivation; his talent lies in helping hard-working, conscientious adults thrive at work and in their personal lives

Turn wasted hours into tasks accomplished by following the methods found in Change Your Day, Not Your Life.

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Human Factors in Project Management: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques for Inspiring Teamwork and Motivation

In Human Factors in Project Management, author Zachary Wong—a noted trainer and acclaimed leader of more than 250 project teams—provides a summary of “people-based” management skills and techniques that can be applied when working in a team environment. This comprehensive resource brings together in one book new and current models in team motivation and integrates the most significant concepts in team motivation and behaviors into a single set of principles called “Human Factors.” Wong shows how these factors can be applied to the most challenging issues facing project managers today includingMotivating a diverse workforceFacilitating team decisionsResolving interpersonal conflictsManaging difficult peopleStrengthening team accountabilityCommunicationsLeadership

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Work Motivation: History, Theory, Research, and Practice

This book provides a unique behavioral science framework for motivating employees in organizational settings. Drawing upon his experiences as a staff psychologist and consultant, Gary Latham writes in a “mentor voice” that is highly personal and rich in examples. The book includes anecdotes about the major thought leaders in the field of motivation, together with behind-the-scenes accounts of research and the researchers. It offers a chronological review of the field, and a taxonomy for the study and practice of motivation. Controversies of theoretical and practical significance such as the importance of money, the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance, and the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are discussed.

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Work and Motivation

Why do people choose the careers they do? What factors cause people to be satisfied with their work? No single work did more to make concepts like motive, goal incentive, and attitude part of the workplace vocabulary.

This landmark work, originally published in 1964, integrates the work of hundreds of researchers in individual workplace behavior to explain choice of work, job satisfaction, and job performance. Includes an extensive new introduction that highlights and updates his model for current organization behavior educators and students, as well as professionals who must extract the highest levels of productivity from today’s downsized workforces.

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Student Motivation Book Bundle: Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers to Classroom Challenges

Give your students the tools they need to motivate themselves with tips from award-winning educator Larry Ferlazzo. A comprehensive outline of common classroom challenges, this book presents immediately applicable steps and lesson plans for all teachers looking to help students motivate themselves. With coverage of brain-based learning, classroom management, and using technology, these strategies can be easily incorporated into any curriculum.

Learn to implement solutions to the following challenges:

How do you motivate students? How do you help students see the importance of personal responsibility? How do you deal with a student who is being disruptive in class? How do you regain control of an out-of-control class? And more!

Blogger and educator Larry Ferlazzo has worked to combine literacy development with short and rigorous classroom lessons on topics such as self-control, personal responsibility, brain growth, and perseverance. He uses many “on-the-spot” interventions designed to engage students and connect with their personal interests.

Use these practical, research-based ideas to ensure all of your students are intrinsically motivated to learn!

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Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn: A Comprehensive Guide for Teaching All Adults

New to this edition is the blending of a neuroscientific understanding of motivation and learning with an instructional approach responsive to linguistically and culturally different adult learners. Based on the most current educational and biological research, Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn addresses issues that focus on deepening learner motivation and helping adults to want to learn. In the book, Raymond J. Wlodkowski offers a clear framework and sixty practical, research-based strategies that are designed to elicit and encourage learner motivation. In addition, the book is filled with practical examples, guidelines for instructional planning, and cutting-edge ideas for assessment and transfer of learning.