• Building a classroom learning community where all students feel valued
• Describing and planning learning so that students know the learning goals and what they must do to achieve them
• Finding adventure and fun in learning, without sacrificing standards
• Promoting student choice and control as active partners in their learning
• Ensuring learning by holding high expectations, building student self-efficacy, and adjusting teaching and grading practices

• Twenty-five research-based strategies for counteracting disengagement, with classroom applications for each
• Dozens of practical activities and reproducibles
• “Campfire talk” to facilitate professional learning discussions with colleagues at the end of each chapter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Chapter 1: Understanding Motivation
Chapter 2: Building a Classroom Learning Community
Chapter 3: Describing and Planning Learning
Chapter 4: Finding Adventure
Chapter 5: Promoting Choice and Control
Chapter 6: Ensuring Learning
Chapter 7: Keeping the Flame Burning!
References and Resources
Index

REPRODUCIBLES

Chapter 1: Understanding Motivation

Self-Assessing Your Motivational Practice
Three-Step Protocol for Motivating Students
Understanding the Learners

Chapter 2: Building a Classroom Learning Community

Plan for Student Motivation
Personal View of You Questions
Rating How You Learn
Exploring Your Smarts
Celebrating the Accomplishments of Our Students!
Cube Activity
Blank Cube
Best-and-Worst Outcomes Questioning Sequence

Chapter 3: Describing and Planning Learning

Plan for Student Motivation
Student Tracking Sheet for Language Arts

Chapter 4: Finding Adventure

Plan for Student Motivation
Planning Irresistible Hooks and Clever Closures
Policies and Practices

Chapter 5: Promoting Choice and Control

Plan for Student Motivation
Survey on Control
Goal-Setting Template
Template for Quick Task or Behavior Goal Completion
Role-Play Planning Sheet

Chapter 6: Ensuring Learning

Plan for Student Motivation
Intervention Plan for a Targeted Learning Goal

Chapter 7: Keeping the Flame Burning!

Personal Performance and Implementation of Motivational Strategies
Questions Reflection

Online Only

Checklist for Engaging, Motivating Lecturettes
Ineffective and Effective Teacher Responses to Student Misbehavior
Student Co-Created Rubric Template
Worksheet for Co-Constructing Criteria

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Course Pages

docs.moodle.org/en/Teaching_with_Moodle
teacher.pageflakes.com

Social Bookmarking

delicious.com
digg.com
diigo.com/education

Discussion Boards

delicious.com
digg.com
diigo.com/education

Polls and Surveys

delicious.com
digg.com
diigo.com/education

Blogs

delicious.com
digg.com
diigo.com/education

Wikis

pbworks.com
wikispaces.com
wetpaint.com

Online Assessments

arcademicskillbuilders.com
persuadestar.4teachers.org
quizstar.4teachers.org

Lessons

kidsvid.4teachers.org
moodle.org
thinkquest.org/en
trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar

Assignments

blackboard.com
poster.4teachers.org
schooltown.net
turnitin.com

RSS Feeds

friendfeed.com
google.com/reader
newsgator.com

Glossaries

docs.moodle.org/en/Glossaries
glossword.biz
studystack.com

SUGGESTED RESOURCES

foldables.wikispaces.com
catawba.k12.nc.us/c_i_resources/foldables.htm
dinah.com
hbook.com/resources/books/concept.asp
studyisland.com

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

	Carolyn Chapman	Nicole Vagle