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A Love for Learning: Motivation and the Gifted Child

Spark the motivation in your gifted child or student! Keep them eager and excited at home and in the classroom!

Gifted children are susceptible to many de-motivating factors, which can lead to depression and academic underachievement. The authors present concepts and techniques to counteract those factors, allowing a child’s motivation to skyrocket.

Features the Four C’s of Motivation:
~Creating Challenge
~Creating Control
~Creating Commitment
~Creating Compassion

This new book, with a foreword by Dr. Joanne Rand Whitmore Schwartz, also includes additional resources, books and websites for parents and teachers.

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Big Kids Coloring Book: Kaleidoscopic Mandalas and Quotes to Color: Volume One – Motivation (Big Kids Coloring Books)

Beautiful patterns in a full-page rectangular, kaleidoscopic image for 30+ illustrations to keep you busy for weeks! This book includes bonus coloring pages from the artist’s other coloring books.
The artist, Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D., has produced a compilation of delightful kaleidoscopes accompanied with motivational quotes in this coloring book which allows the colorist to use their imagination in multiple ways with their choice of media. In this book you will find dozens of illustrations with complicated to simple illustrations. The artist’s hand-drawn original sketches were manipulated into kaleidoscopic mandalas surrounding quotes of wisdom resulting in graphically complimentary illustrations with loads of potential for adding color.
What can you do with the book once you have finished? Once the designs in this book are colored – give the books as gifts, use pages as scrapbook background art, create greeting cards, or use the designs and use in multi-media art. Frame them and hang them in the office, classroom, or at home where the designs can continue to inspire friends, family, and co-workers. The possibilities are endless!
These 30+ images coloring book were drawn just for BIG KIDS at heart. These designs were created from the artist’s hand-drawn original inspired sketches resulting in graphically complimentary black and white spaces with loads of potential for adding color.
How can BIG KIDS (regardless of chronological age) use this coloring book? Whether the co-artist uses crayon, marker, or colored pencil, or paints – or a combination – the beautiful results can be used to pass the time, keep your mind still, go into a personal Zen moment, use your hands in a creative way, or use for a craft project. Once the designs are colored – give the books as gifts, as scrapbook background art, or cut out designs for multi-media art. Possibilities are endless!

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Activating Happiness: A Jump-Start Guide to Overcoming Low Motivation, Depression, or Just Feeling Stuck

It’s not just big choices that can radically change our lives—sometimes it’s the small ones. Activating Happiness offers powerful, evidence-based strategies to help you conquer low motivation, nix negative moods, and defeat depression by actively making positive choices in small, everyday moments.

If you have depression or just suffer from low mood and lack of motivation, you know that your life isn’t going to change with one grand, sweeping gesture. But you can make important decisions every day—whether it’s getting off the couch and going for a walk, signing up for a course in pottery or screenwriting, or just setting aside some time to meet and chat with a good friend over coffee. These little things won’t change your life all at once. But over time, they will shape the way you live and see the world and keep you on a path to wellness.

In Activating Happiness, you’ll find solid strategies based in behavioral activation and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you break the cycle of avoidance, guilt, shame, and hopelessness that can take hold when you’re feeling your lowest. Using this guide, you’ll find little, doable ways to “show up” to your life, get the ball rolling, and start really feeling better, instead of just reassuring others. You’ll learn to set healthy goals for your body like eating and sleeping well, as well as healthy goals for your mind. Most importantly, you’ll discover how to view your life through the lens of your own deepest values, which will spark a commitment to real, lasting change.

The best thing about change is that you can start anywhere. By building a life—moment by moment—of rewarding behaviors that correspond to your values, you have the recipe for getting and staying well at your fingertips. This book will guide your way.

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Classroom Assessment: Principles and Practice that Enhance Student Learning and Motivation. (7th Edition)

Note: This is the bound-book version of  Classroom Assessment: Principles and Practice for Effective Standards-Based Instruction and does not include access to MyLab™ Education. To order MyLab Education with Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with the bound-book version, use ISBN  0134522087. 

 

A comprehensive, nontechnical, engaging, look at how assessment is used to improve student learning and motivation.

Drawing on recent research and new directions in the field, this concise, engaging book shows teachers how to use classroom assessment effectively for improving student learning and motivation. Key strategies and techniques are demonstrated through practical, realistic examples, suggestions, and case studies. The new edition emphasizes formative assessment and includes more in-depth coverage of self-assessment, the impact of standards-based accountability testing, 21st century knowledge, dispositions and skills, technology-enhanced items, and assessment of culturally diverse students. Each chapter provides aids to help readers learn and practice the skills of that chapter, including new Teacher Corners features illustrating actual teachers’ thinking about classroom assessment, introductory case studies, chapter concept maps, new figures, suggestions for action research, self-instructional review exercises, and links to digital resources. 

 

Also available with MyLab Education

Designed to bring learners more directly into the world of K-12 classrooms and to help them see the real and powerful impact of the assessment concepts covered in this book, MyLab Education provides practice using classroom assessment concepts in teaching situations, helps students and instructors see how well students understand the content, and helps students more deeply process assessment concepts and strategies and also better understand how to use those concepts as a teacher. The online resources in this MyLab include:

Video Examples. Throughout the eText, embedded videos provide illustrations of sound assessment practices in action.   Self-Check Assessments. Throughout the chapters, students will find self-check quizzes that help assess how well students have mastered chapter learning outcomes. The quizzes consist of self-grading multiple choice items that provide rationales, both for questions answered correctly and for questions answered incorrectly.   Application Exercises. These scaffolded exercises, tied to learning outcomes, challenge learners to reflect on assessment and to apply what they have learned to real classroom assessment work.   MyLab Education includes the Pearson eText version of the book. 

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Advances in Motivation in Sport and Exercise-3rd Edition

Advances in Motivation in Sport and Exercise, Third Edition, presents the most current information in sport and exercise motivation, including discussion of new research surrounding self-determination theory and goal achievement theory, traditional topics of goal setting and self-efficacy, and newer areas of attention such as passion and perfectionism. Readers not only will gain knowledge in one of the leading areas of sport psychology research but also learn how the research can inform their current practice.

In this third edition, editors Glyn Roberts and Darren Treasure, along with a highly respected team of contributors, offer sport and exercise psychology researchers and students the most up-to-date review of the state of research in motivation. As in previous editions, the text chronicles the growth of motivation research and its role in physical activity, exercise, and sport. The star team of contributors offers thoughtful discussion of key issues and findings for readers to consider and insight into both the conceptual understanding of motivation and its application.

Advances in Motivation in Sport and Exercise, Third Edition, begins by introducing readers to new trends and interpretations in motivational theory. Each chapter of the text discusses a unique motivational theory and its contemporary contribution to the field of knowledge. Whether research or practically inclined, readers will be enlightened through the use of these features:

• Presentation of differing perspectives and approaches that make up the current state of research in the most vibrant of topics in sport and exercise psychology

• Future Directions for Research and Practical Applications sections at the end of each chapter that help demonstrate how the chapters’ content is applied to real-world practice

• An extensive reference list that serves as a tool for finding further resources and continuing study of motivation

The third edition of Advances in Motivation in Sport and Exercise helps readers learn how the theories of motivation can be applied in exercise, sport, and physical activity contexts. Thoughtfully compiled by a respected editor and contributor team, this comprehensive text serves as a review of current research and a resource for further study and applications for researchers, students, and practitioners.

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Work hard stay Humble (Inspirational Journal, Diary, Notebook): Motivation and Inspirational Journal Book with Coloring Pages Inside Gifts for Men/Women/Teens/Seniors

A notebook, journal, Diary or large composition book. Include Coloring pages inside the book. This paperback notebook is 8.5″ x 11″ (letter size) and has 115 pages. The best gift for people who needs Motivation and Inspirational.

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How to Interview: What Employers Want to Hear in Today’s Competitive Job Market (Directional Motivation Book Series)

Do you dread interviews? Don’t you wish you could bring power to your next interview? Well now you can! In fact, anyone can with the help of this book. Russ Hovendick has coached thousands of candidates, just like yourself, to bring a new found confidence level to the interview process. Why take the chance of missing out on your opportunity of a lifetime, when the tools you need, are as close as the click of your mouse? Do your future a huge favor by clicking right now to own this valuable resource. If you’ve ever bombed a job interview, you probably left the room wishing you could be a fly on the wall. What would the interviewer say about you? What was going on in that person’s head as you spoke? Imagine how valuable that information could be in helping you prepare for your next job interview. In How to Interview: What Employers Want to Hear in Today’s Competitive Job Market, executive recruiter Russ Hovendick shares what he has learned after twenty years of coaching job applicants and getting feedback from hiring managers from some of the most sought after Fortune 500 companies. With this book you will get an insider’s view of the hiring process and the candid–mostly blunt–version of what’s going through the employer’s mind.
Learn the art of storytelling to steer the conversation in your favor. Apply the bold technique Hovendick’s successful candidates use at the end of every job interview to nail your next interview. Implementing the strategies in this book, will turn your interviewer into your advocate. How to Interview is part of the Directional Motivation series of career development books. Filled with pragmatic advice, confidence-boosting exercises, sample scripts, and unbeatable techniques for demonstrating your unique assets, the book is undoubtedly the go-to resource for you, the proactive job seeker. Click now to change your future!

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