Product Description

Motivating Students Who Don't Care is a comprehensive and practical guide for reconnecting with discouraged students and reawakening their excitement and enthusiasm for learning.

With proven strategies from the classroom, this resource identifies five effective processes the reader can use to reawaken motivation in students who aren't prepared, don't care, and won't work. These processes include emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power, building relationships, and expressing enthusiasm. Each process is fully explained and illustrated with proven strategies from the classroom. Questions for reflection will help the reader identify motivating strategies and apply the five key processes to the challenge of changing students lives.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17206 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 80 pages

About the Author
Allen N. Mendler, Ph.D., is an educator and school psychologist who has worked extensively with children of all ages. As one of the internationally recognized authors of the Discipline With Dignity® program, Dr. Mendler has worked to develop effective strategies for educators and youth professionals to help challenging students succeed. Dr. Mendler is also the author of Just In Time, Power Struggles, and What Do I Do When…?, and the coauthor (with Dr. Richard Curwin) of The Four Keys to Effective Classroom and Behavior Management, As Tough as Necessary, and Discipline With Dignity for Challenging Youth.

Customer Reviews

Useful stuff at a great price
The only person who can motivate an unmotivated student is the unmotivated student. All a teacher can do is provide a classroom environment that maximizes the chances that his students will choose to get motivated.

And that's where this book comes in. It is packed with useful and practical suggestions sorted into five big ideas: Emphasizing Effort, Creating Hope, Respecting Power, Building Relationships, and Expressing Enthusiasm. A brief introduction, including research sources, is given for each big idea, then the author gets right to the strategies.

Don't be fooled by the relatively unassuming size and the more then reasonable price. If you teach, this is a book you will use until you've used it up. Then you can buy another copy and another, and you still won't be out the price of many of the educational motivation books that sit pristinely on my shelves collecting well-deserved dust.

Bending over backwards for students who don't care
This book contains a lot of useful information for the new teacher or the burned out teacher who needs a boost. It's useful in the sense that it tries to get teachers to stop taking negative beahvior personally (usually it's not about the teacher) and to use positive reinforcement as much as possible--always a good idea whenever you are trying to change behavior, be it animal or human! But I had to laugh out loud when the author suggests praising the consistently tardy student for being in class "most of the time." Give me a break!

Specific Tools to Use
Short and to the point. This book gives specific tools to use to gain and keep classroom respect and decorum. I have begun implementing some of the ideas in my already way out of control classroom. Thanks for your help!!