This is a book about teachers' classroom motivating styles. Motivating
style is the interpersonal tone and face-to-face behavior the teacher
relies on when trying to motivate students to engage in classroom
activities and procedures. The over-arching goal of the book is to help
teachers work through the professional developmental process to learn
how to provide instruction in ways that students will find to be
motivationally-enriching, satisfying, and engagement-generating.
To realize this goal, the book features six parts: Part 1: Introduction,
introduces what teachers are to support-namely, student motivation; Part
2: Motivating Style, explains what a supportive motivating style is;
Part 3: "How to," overviews the recommended motivationally-supportive
instructional strategies one-by-one and step-by-step; Part 4: Workshop,
walks the reader through the skill-building workshop experience; Part 5:
Benefits, details all the student, teacher, and classroom benefits that
come from an improved motivating style; and Part 6: Getting Started,
discusses
ways to begin using these skills in the classroom.
Based on a successful workshop program run by the authors, teachers
successfully improve their classroom motivating style. In doing so, they
experience gains in their teaching skill and efficacy, job satisfaction,
a renewed passion for teaching, and a more satisfying relationship with
their students. This multiauthored book provides teachers with the
practical, concrete, step-by-step, skill-based "how to" they need to
develop a highly supportive motivating style.
