Motivation for Achievement
Motivation for Achievement

Author: M. Kay Alderman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1136769803

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Understanding student and teacher motivation and developing strategies to foster motivation for students at all levels of performance are essential to effective teaching. This text is designed to help prospective and practicing teachers achieve these goals. Its premise is that current research and theory about motivation offer hope and possibilities for educators —teachers, parents, coaches, and administrators—to enhance motivation for achievement. The orientation draws primarily on social-cognitive perspectives that have generated much research relevant to classroom practice. Ideal for any course that is dedicated to, or includes coverage of, motivation and achievement, the text focuses on two key roles teachers play in supporting and cultivating motivation in the classroom: establishing the classroom structure and instruction that provides the environment for optimal motivation, engagement, and learning; and helping students develop the tools that will enable them to be self-regulated learners and develop their potential. Pedagogical features aid the understanding of concepts and the application to practice: Strategy boxes present guidelines and strategies for using the various concepts. Exhibit boxes include forms for different purposes (for example, goal setting), examples of teacher beliefs and practices, and samples of student work. Reflection boxes stimulate readers’ thinking about motivational issues inherent in the topics, their experiences, and their beliefs. A motivational toolbox at the end of each chapter helps readers identify important points to think about, lingering questions, strategies to use now, and strategies to develop in the future. NEW IN THE THIRD EDITION Updated research and new topics are added throughout as warranted by current inquiry in the field. Chapters are reorganized to provide more coherence and to account for new findings. New and updated material is included on issues of educational reform, standards for achievement, and high-stakes testing, and on achievement goal theory, especially regarding performance goals and the distinction between performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals as relevant to classroom practice.

Actions Against Distractions
Actions Against Distractions

Author: Geraldine Markel, PhD

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-08-27

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1475992734

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Don’t Blame the Demons of Distraction—Conquer Them!On average, dealing with interruptions at work consumes more than two hours a day—or 28% of your whole workday.Is that true for you, too? Do mysterious forces thwart your efforts to be productive at work and beyond? How many times have you said, “I wish I weren’t constantly interrupted” or “I need to stop wasting time on the computer” or “I’m misplacing my keys and glasses all the time”? Don’t dismiss these concerns. They matter. And you definitely don’t have to “live with them.” You don’t have to let your life spin out of control. Take action against your distractions now! Whether you’re a business person, community leader, stay-at-home parent, or retiree, play an active role in enhancing your quality of life—distraction free! You’ll find the systematic approach especially helpful if you constantly:• Struggle to find or maintain a job• Need greater focus to return to school• Strive to keep ahead of competitors• Fight the battle with rushing and over-commitmentUse Actions Against Distractions to help you:• Discover your strengths and vulnerabilities• Go from “good intention” to “effective action”• Gain and maintain improved attention, memory and organization• Ultimately enjoy greater peace of mind and life satisfactionDon’t let your life spin out of control! Take advantage of this guide’s:• Self-Checks and Engaging Worksheets• A Personalized 5-Step Action Plan• 7 Strategies to Implement Your Plan• Actions Against Distraction: technology, others, activities, spaces, stress, fatigue, medication/illness, and an unruly mind “This book can benefit everyone. . . . professionals, business owners, artists, musicians, parents, and anyone trying to juggle a busy life. Dr. Markel’s book is remarkable in that it helps you identify your own ‘Demons of Distraction,’ and through reflection, to mobilize yourself to overcome both internal and external interferences in achieving your goals. I found it funny, profoundly truthful and enormously helpful.”—SALLY ROSENBERG, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor,Department of Psychiatry, Michigan State University

From Glimpses to Glory; How the Vision Becomes Reality
From Glimpses to Glory; How the Vision Becomes Reality

Author: Beverly Carroll

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-02-24

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1458328147

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"I can see her!" This simple sentence is packed with power, and serves as a catalyst for transformation. It is a rallying cry for women who will read this book and dream of who they can be in Christ. This book offers women the opportunity to move beyond the glimpse to the glory by introducing them to the One Who not only allows the glimpse, but then works with them to make the vision a reality. He allows them to "see her" and enables them to "be her." They will experience God, their Divine Traveling Companion for the journey, in fresh and dazzling ways as He plots their paths, and orders their steps, all the way to glory.

Distracted
Distracted

Author: James M. Lang

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1541699815

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Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions -- which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher's biggest problems. Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students' ability to focus. The logical response is to ban electronics in class. But acclaimed educator James M. Lang argues that this solution obscures a deeper problem: how we teach is often at odds with how students learn. Classrooms are designed to force students into long periods of intense focus, but emerging science reveals that the brain is wired for distraction. We learn best when able to actively seek and synthesize new information. In Distracted, Lang rethinks the practice of teaching, revealing how educators can structure their classrooms less as distraction-free zones and more as environments where they can actively cultivate their students' attention. Brimming with ideas and grounded in new research, Distracted offers an innovative plan for the most important lesson of all: how to learn.

Fuel Your Dreams
Fuel Your Dreams

Author: Ehsan Zarrini

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2023-05-09

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9528017290

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"Fuel Your Dreams: A Guide to Fueling Entrepreneurship" is a comprehensive guide designed to turn your entrepreneurial aspirations into a thriving reality. This insightful and inspiring book provides a roadmap to turn your ideas and passions into a successful business venture. Filled with expert insights and real-life experiences from successful entrepreneurs, this book offers practical and actionable advice on the essential steps to launching and growing your business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to take your venture to the next level, "Fuel Your Dreams" is a powerful tool to help you overcome the challenges and obstacles on your entrepreneurial journey. With its extensive coverage of crucial topics, this book will motivate and guide you as you turn your dreams into a thriving business. "Fuel Your Dreams" is a must-have for both aspiring and seasoned entrepreneurs, providing the essential tools and knowledge needed to succeed in the competitive world of entrepreneurship. Start fueling your entrepreneurial dreams today and achieve success like never before!

Deceptions, Distractions & Disillusionment: Barriers to Your Success and Ours
Deceptions, Distractions & Disillusionment: Barriers to Your Success and Ours

Author: Michael A. Wright

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-02-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1943616078

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We find it difficult to see ourselves clearly or change our behaviors to be in line with our desires. We don't know ourselves, or we focus on what we think are negatives about ourselves (shame). We don't trust ourselves (suppression). We don't know our purpose in comparison to the other (role confusion). We don't trust the other (isolation). We are a bunch of islands attempting to convince ourselves that we are "family." "Family" has come to mean something less than people who are willing to give their all to establish your success. Overcoming this deception starts with the realization that YOU are to blame. Forgiveness, Perfection, and Agency are elements of the solution we both must learn.

The Digital Edge
The Digital Edge

Author: S. Craig Watkins

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2018-12-11

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1479849855

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How black and Latino youth learn, create, and collaborate online The Digital Edge examines how the digital and social-media lives of low-income youth, especially youth of color, have evolved amidst rapid social and technological change. While notions of the digital divide between the “technology rich” and the “technology poor” have largely focused on access to new media technologies, the contours of the digital divide have grown increasingly complex. Analyzing data from a year‐long ethnographic study at Freeway High School, the authors investigate how the digital media ecologies and practices of black and Latino youth have adapted as a result of the wider diffusion of the internet all around us--in homes, at school, and in the palm of our hands. Their eager adoption of different technologies forge new possibilities for learning and creating that recognize the collective power of youth: peer networks, inventive uses of technology, and impassioned interests that are remaking the digital world. Relying on nearly three hundred in-depth interviews with students, teachers, and parents, and hundreds of hours of observation in technology classes and after school programs, The Digital Edge carefully documents some of the emergent challenges for creating a more equitable digital and educational future. Focusing on the complex interactions between race, class, gender, geography and social inequality, the book explores the educational perils and possibilities of the expansion of digital media into the lives and learning environments of low-income youth. Ultimately, the book addresses how schools can support the ability of students to develop the social, technological, and educational skills required to navigate twenty-first century life.

Worried About the Wrong Things
Worried About the Wrong Things

Author: Jacqueline Ryan Vickery

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2018-09-11

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0262536218

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Why media panics about online dangers overlook another urgent concern: creating equitable online opportunities for marginalized youth. It's a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically ruined. In this book, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery argues that there are other urgent concerns about young people's online experiences besides porn, predators, and peers. We need to turn our attention to inequitable opportunities for participation in a digital culture. Technical and material obstacles prevent low-income and other marginalized young people from the positive, community-building, and creative experiences that are possible online. Vickery explains that cautionary tales about online risk have shaped the way we think about technology and youth. She analyzes the discourses of risk in popular culture, journalism, and policy, and finds that harm-driven expectations, based on a privileged perception of risk, enact control over technology. Opportunity-driven expectations, on the other hand, based on evidence and lived experience, produce discourses that acknowledge the practices and agency of young people rather than seeing them as passive victims who need to be protected. Vickery first addresses how the discourses of risk regulate and control technology, then turns to the online practices of youth at a low-income, minority-majority Texas high school. She considers the participation gap and the need for schools to teach digital literacies, privacy, and different online learning ecologies. Finally, she shows that opportunity-driven expectations can guide young people's online experiences in ways that balance protection and agency.

Addiction and Responsibility
Addiction and Responsibility

Author: Jeffrey Poland

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2011-05-13

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0262295032

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The intertwining of addiction and responsibility in personal, philosophical, legal, research, and clinical contexts. Addictive behavior threatens not just the addict's happiness and health but also the welfare and well-being of others. It represents a loss of self-control and a variety of other cognitive impairments and behavioral deficits. An addict may say, "I couldn't help myself." But questions arise: are we responsible for our addictions? And what responsibilities do others have to help us? This volume offers a range of perspectives on addiction and responsibility and how the two are bound together. Distinguished contributors—from theorists to clinicians, from neuroscientists and psychologists to philosophers and legal scholars—discuss these questions in essays using a variety of conceptual and investigative tools. Some contributors offer models of addiction-related phenomena, including theories of incentive sensitization, ego-depletion, and pathological affect; others address such traditional philosophical questions as free will and agency, mind-body, and other minds. Two essays, written by scholars who were themselves addicts, attempt to integrate first-person phenomenological accounts with the third-person perspective of the sciences. Contributors distinguish among moral responsibility, legal responsibility, and the ethical responsibility of clinicians and researchers. Taken together, the essays offer a forceful argument that we cannot fully understand addiction if we do not also understand responsibility.