Best Practice in Motivation and Management in the Classroom

This text offers practical information and vicarious practice for both beginning and veteran teachers to become more knowledgeable, skilled, and therefore effective in their work. The text explains to teachers why it is important to have an understanding of their students’ interests, styles of learning, and backgrounds in order to meet the unique needs of each individual student, and why having the ability to manage the learning environment, motivate students in the learning environment, and offer instruction is itself motivating and contributes to students learning what they need to acquire. It will help teachers develop their skills as instructional specialists, motivators, managers, and problem solvers in order to meet the expectations for their students. Stressed throughout the book is that teachers must find ways to teach their students in ways that students find interesting, relevant, engaging, and understandable, and that if students do not see what they are learning as interesting, if they do not recognize it as being relevant to their lives either now or in the future, if they are not meaningfully connected to it, and if they do not view it as being understandable to the degree that they can be successful, they will not achieve their greatest potentials. This book will help teachers to get their students to achieve at high levels in demonstrating what they have learned through the application of these intertwined areas of student motivation and classroom management, which are considered critical for best practice in teaching in classrooms today.