Motivated to Learn: Decreasing Challenging Student Behaviors and Increasing Academic Engagement (Your Guide to Evidence-Based Practices for Effective - Paperback

by Staci M. Zolkoski (Author), Calli Lewis Chiu (Author), Mandy E. Lusk (Author)

Imagine a day in the classroom where you can devote all your energy to student learning instead of battling challenging behavior. In Motivated to Learn, you will gain evidence-based approaches for engaging students and equipping them to better focus in the classroom. With this book's straightforward strategies, you can learn to motivate all your students to actively participate in learning.

PreK-12 educators will:

• Discover the root causes of challenging behavior
• Learn how to implement student choices in the classroom
• Explore self-monitoring as a way to improve social behavior and academic success
• Examine precorrection as a way to be proactive in the classroom when it comes to challenging behaviors

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Challenging Behaviors--Why Students Exhibit Them and How These Behaviors Impact Academic Engagement
Chapter 2: I'd Like a Choice--A Guide to Implementing Choice
Chapter 3: It's All About the Reward--A Guide to Token Economies
Chapter 4: Set Them Up for Success--A Guide to High-Probability Sequencing
Chapter 5: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work--A Guide to Classwide Peer Tutoring
Chapter 6: Put the Students in Charge--A Guide to Self-Monitoring
Chapter 7: Call on Me--A Guide to Opportunities to Respond
Chapter 8: Remember What We Talked About--A Guide to Precorrection
Epilogue
Appendix: Resources for Teachers
References and Resources
Index