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Archive for the ‘Motivational’ Category

With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive anthology of conceptual and empirical papers describing the latest developments in L2 motivation research that involves the reframing of motivation in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity…. More >>
Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self

This volume includes papers presented at a colloquium on second language motivation at the American Association for Applied Linguistics…. More >>
Motivation and second language acquisition

“Differentiating Textbooks” is the next logical and practical step toward improving your students’ ability to read, comprehend, and retain what they are taught in content-area textbooks. Find out how to motivate your students as they are confronted with text which is generally written in less-than-engaging expository style. “Differentiating Textbooks” shows you how to teach the child, not the textbook, and as with differentiated instruction, you will soon discover t… More >>
Differentiating Textbooks: Strategies to Improve Student Comprehension & Motivation

Life is indeed uncertain; it’s an odyssey subject to natural, social, and economic pressures, which influence its course. However, it’s the inner fire and drive in each individual that ultimately govern and determine the whole course of each human life. If an individual’s motivation is sufficiently strong, it will weather through the ever-changing environment until an opportunity opens, which can allow one’s desires to be fulfilled. This is the story of a… More >>
Motivation and Opportunity: An Immigrant’s Quest for Knowledge from Mindanao to the Leading Edge of Science and Technology

In Tools for Teaching, Dr. Jones describes the skills by which exceptional teachers make the classroom a place of success and enjoyment for both themselves and their students. Tools for Teaching integrates the management of discipline, instruction and motivation into a system that allows you to reduce the stress of teaching by preventing most management headaches. Dr. Jones helps you reduce student disruptions, backtalk, helpless handraising and dawdling while helpi… More >>
Fred Jones Tools for Teaching: Discipline, Instruction, Motivation

Missed deadlines, absenteeism, and poor performance are symptoms of the kind of employee discouragement that can derail change efforts, cause teams to fail, and create record-breaking turnover. They are a clear signal that focusing on performance is not enough. Managers also must continually read the gauge on employee motivation in order to get to the heart of problems, empower employees to find solutions, and stay on the road to success. Motivation Managem… More >>
Motivation Management: Fueling Performace by Discovering What People Believe About Themselves and Their Organizations

In the past two decades, an approach to the study of motivation has emerged that focuses on specific cognitive and affective mediators of behavior, in contrast to more general traits or motives. This “social-cognitive” approach grants goal-oriented motivation its own role in shaping cognition, emotion and behavior, rather than reducing goal-directed behavior to mere information processing or to an enactment of a personality type. This book adds a developmental per… More >>
Motivation and Self-Regulation across the Life Span

This author has guided tens of thousands from discouragement to happiness and success. From goal setting to personal grooming, this classic covers all aspects of motivation in a personal, inspiring style…. More >>
The Miracle of Motivation

Hundreds of motivational strategies you can use today for every coaching situation you may face. Chapters on: Problems of Motivation, Styles of Motivation, Building Confidence, Rewards, Handling the Superstar, Forging Positive Attitudes and Relationships, Motivating Women, Motivating the Problem Player, Motivating Reserves, and more…. More >>
Coaching and Motivation: A Practice Guide to Maximum Athletic Performance

This edited volume in SIOP’s Organizational Frontiers Series presents the current thinking and research on the important area of motivation.Work Motivation is a central issue in Industrial organizational psychology, human resource management and organizational behavior. In this volume the editors and authors show that motivation must be seen as a multi-level phenomenon where individual, group, organizational and cultural variables must be considered to truly underst… More >>
Work Motivation: Past, Present, and Future

This second edition of the best-selling textbook on Work Motivation in Organizational Behavior provides an update of the critical analysis of the scientific literature on this topic, and provides a highly integrated treatment of leading theories, including their historical roots and progression over the years. A heavy emphasis is placed on the notion that behavior in the workplace is determined by a mix of factors, many of which are not treated in texts on work moti… More >>
Work Motivation in Organizational Behavior, 2nd ed.

“Nobody stays in school because of Algebra 2.

This educator s chance remark captures an essential truth: what keeps students in school or fails to is rarely the content that they are taught. Only when students feel engaged both socially and academically can schools and teachers lay the groundwork to motivate achievement. This volume, the fifth in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight series, brings together fifteen seminal articles that examine research and… More >>
Spotlight on Student Engagement, Motivation, and Achievement