Listen to a podcast with Stevi Quate, John McDermott, and two teachers who have used their framework to get all students engaged and motivated. "Instead of cringing the next time your colleagues utter the words, "These students don't care," hand them Clock Watchers. Describe your personal struggles and your experience with the book so they know that you know what they're going through. Then point out a few of your favorite ideas. As you walk away, you'll smile knowing you've made a difference." -Cris Tovani Author of I Read It, but I Don't Get It For Stevi Quate and John McDermott, this was the missing piece of their teaching: "How can I motivate my students and then create a context that will engage them?" Clock Watchers is their powerful answer-a plan that gets kids to care about learning and truly engage with the curriculum. Clock Watchers is not a book of tips and tricks. Instead it applies the research on motivation and engagement to support increased achievement and improved attitudes about school. Quate and McDermott's six-step framework: <ul>
<li>catches students' interest across the content areas</li> <li>holds it through meaningful learning and valuable interactions</li> <li>uses assessment to create further opportunities to connect kids with content </li> <li>sustains it all with ideas for projects, activities, and even classroom routines and rituals.</li> </ul>
Clock Watchers works with the most reluctant learners. Its end-of-text study guide makes the book ideal for PLCs and study groups, and it is a research-based resource for district-wide initiatives aimed at improving student motivation and engagement. If deeper learning, increased achievement, and reduced drop-out rates matter to you, then motivation and engagement are an urgent matter. Read Clock Watchers with colleagues and put it into action-before the time to change your students' lives runs out.

Clock Watchers: Six Steps to Motivating and Engaging Disengaged Students Across Content Areas

Education & Teaching

McDERMOTT, John

Tovani, Cris

Quate, Stevi

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

"We can and must create classrooms filled with pressing, transformative, and authentic work. We have to provide access to all learners.This has to happen now." -Stevi Quate and John McDermott If you don't care about disengagement and the dropout problem, this isn't the book for you. But if, like coauthors Stevi Quate and John McDermott, the disillusionment and disappearance of student after student tears you up, then find out what you can do with The Just-Right Challenge. Challenge is supposed to motivate learners to grow. But imagine if school was like playing a game without knowing the rules. The unwitting mistakes. The frustration. The building hatred. Or a game so boring and divorced from your real interests that you dreaded showing up for it. That's why The Just-Right Challenge is so important. In an era when the Common Core standards call for increased rigor, how do we challenge students-especially reluctant students-appropriately? Stevi and John present 9 strategies and the experiences of teachers across content areas to help you: <ul>
<li>create a can-do classroom, where expectations-and support-are high</li> <li>help students embrace challenge with work that is authentic and transformative</li> <li>provide every student with access to challenges just beyond their skill level.</li> </ul>
As teachers, we are powerless over many of the factors that lead kids to disengage or drop out. But there are things we can do. Not radical things-shifts in our practice that yield tremendous results. With The Just-Right Challenge, we can do our part to make our classes must-attends and every kid a stay-in. Because we do care. Preview the book. Download and read a sample chapter.

The Just-Right Challenge: 9 Strategies to Ensure Adolescents Don't Drop Out of the Game

Self-Help

Motivational

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