Motivation Counts

This collection of classroom-tested ideas for getting your entire class involved with mathematics helps teachers: implement effective questioning techniques; enhance testing and homework procedures; motivate problem-solving experiences; use strategies for opening and closing activities; and clarify the purpose and meaning of math concepts.

What place does motivation have in the lives of intelligent agents? Mele's answer is sensitive to the concerns of philosophers of mind and moral philosophers and informed by empirical work. He offers a distinctive, comprehensive, attractive view of human agency. This book stands boldly at the intersection of philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and metaphysics.

Why do smart people disengage from mathematical pursuits…and how can we reverse the trend? This book is designed to be the go-to source for information on mathematical motivation. It presents the full body of research on motivation in a useful, interesting and provocative matter.

Motivation of Behavior by Brown, Judson Seise: In this insightful work, Judson Seise Brown explores the factors that drive human behavior and motivation. Drawing on psychological research and theories, "Motivation of Behavior" delves into the complex interplay of internal and external influences that shape human actions and decisions. Key Aspects of the Book "Motivation of Behavior": Psychological Analysis: Brown's book examines human motivation from a psychological perspective, shedding light on the underlying reasons behind behavior. Internal and External Factors: The book explores the role of both internal factors (such as emotions and desires) and external factors (such as rewards and consequences) in motivating behavior. Behavioral Patterns: "Motivation of Behavior" offers insights into the patterns and mechanisms that drive consistent behaviors in individuals and groups. Judson Seise Brown was an American psychologist and educator. He contributed to the fields of psychology and education with his research on human motivation and behavior. Brown's work aimed to deepen our understanding of the forces that influence human actions, paving the way for more effective approaches to education, counseling, and personal development.

Be the change that lights the learning fire. Discover how you, as a classroom teacher, can generate enthusiasm, confidence, and joy in your students that will affect their learning and lives. Delve into the what, and why of motivation and how it affects learning. Then, learn how to spark motivation using practical, research-informed strategies that address how to ? Hone student grouping, rewards, technology, and competition for positive impact ? Confront and disarm testing conflicts to make assessments a pleasant student experience ? Examine and empower teacher–student relationships ? Rethink rules and procedures to improve behavioral outcomes

'This book will transform the way you lead' - Simon Alexander Ong, bestselling author of Energize, international Keynote Speaker and award-winning Coach. To be the kind of leader that inspires others to grow, you need to embody the timeless principles that allow you to evolve and elevate continuously. In our unpredictable and uncertain world, where the only constant is change, your commitment to evolution isn’t just a personal advantage — it’s an organizational necessity. So, keep evolving, because every new version of you offers fresh perspectives, richer experiences, and greater resilience. And in that continual evolution, you’ll find not just success but a deeper, more meaningful form of leadership.

With a long-standing tradition for excellence, this series is a collection of quality papers that are widely read by researchers in cognitive and experimental psychology. Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline.

What is human well-being? Valerie Tiberius argues that our lives go well to the extent that we succeed in terms of what matters to us emotionally, reflectively, and over the long term. In other words, well-being consists in fulfilling or realizing our appropriate values over time. In the first half of the book, Tiberius sets out the theory of well-being as value fulfilment. She explains what valuing is and what it is to fulfill values over time. In the second half of the book she applies the theory to the problem of how to help others, particularly our friends. We don't always know how to provide the help we know others need; but we also have the problem of knowing what help they need in the first place, and this is a problem that requires ethical thinking. Tiberius argues that when we want to help others achieve greater well-being, we should pay attention to their values. This entails attending to how others' values fit together, how they understand what it means to succeed in terms of these values, and how things could change for them over time. Being a good and helpful friend, then, requires cultivating some habits of humility that overcome our tendency to think we know what's good for other people without really understanding what it's like to be them.

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation collects together the field's top theorists and researchers to provide overviews of today's most noteworthy theories, topical chapters on phenomena from ego-depletion to flow, recent work on the biological bases of motivation, and applied in chapters on therapy, work, sport, education and relationships.