Motivating Every Learner
- Alan McLean - Principal Psychologist, Glasgow City Council, Educational Services
This fascinating book explores the interactions between teachers and students, presenting new ways of engaging young people in learning. Alan McLean's very practical approach shows teachers how to understand children's learning stances—the modes of behavior that children bring with them to the classroom. Linking this to specific teaching methods, he shows how teachers can shape their teaching to help children learn more effectively.
Chapters cover:
- What makes pupils tick?
- What pupils do to motivate themselves
- Understanding children's emotions
- What teachers can do to motivate pupils
- Personality styles and how to work with them effectively
- Children's learning stances
Alan McLean is Principal Educational Psychologist at Glasgow City Council.
'It is helpful at least now and then for language teachers to read a book on a key topic - such as this one - which has drawn on a substantially different literature than that which is normally consulted by writers in out field...Extremely accessible and reader friendly. Highly recommended' -
The Teacher Trainer Journal
''If you want to understand what makes for a motivated (or a de-motivated) learner in comtemporary classrooms, you could not do better than read, understand and apply the insights of Motivating Every Learner' - Scottish Educational Review
some supportive information, useful and will be used as part of my mentoring role to engage learners
This book keeps the reader focused by looking at different ways to motivate and make the classrooom experience a good one for the students.
Relevant and inspiring for practitioners in classrooms and with groups of children and young children in a variety of learning contexts. Practitioners can also use ideas with children and young people in a variety of learning groups.
Comprehensive reference list to enable further reading supporting studies to applications
