Student demotivation is experienced as pain―for students, for us, for everyone.
But here′s the good news: student demotivation is not inevitable. It′s not "a sign of the times"; it′s not "kids these days;" it′s not "because of COVID."
Instead, it′s a symptom of the fact that modern education has lost touch with several key realities:
* Every one of our students wants to want to learn
* Every school in the world can be both productive and humane―achievement and wellness aren’t opposed to one another but instead are friends
* As teachers, you and I have an outlandish (though not omnipotent) influence on the degree to which students in our classrooms experience the will to learn, and
* The most powerful strategies for cultivating student motivation are far from complicated
In this book, acclaimed teacher-writer Dave Stuart Jr. brings a new theory of student motivation to the educational conversation. Along the way, he shares
* The five key beliefs beneath all motivated student learning
* Ten high-yield, low-effort methods for cultivating student motivation in all kinds of classrooms for all kinds of students, all year long
* Tactics for overcoming over fifty common hang-ups that teachers and students experience with student motivation
Let′s do the work, colleague. And: let′s do it with care.
