| Record Number |
19231 |
| ISBN |
9781416620488 |
| 1416620486 |
| Location |
370.154 GRE |
| Author |
Gregory, Gayle (author.). |
| Title |
The motivated brain : improving student attention, engagement, and perseverance / Gayle Gregory, Martha Kaufeldt. |
| Published |
Alexandria, Virginia, USA : ASCD, [2015] |
| ©2015. |
| Collation |
xii, 169 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| General Note |
ASCD Member Book No. FY16-1B (September 2015 PSI+) |
| PSD - Professor Stephen Dinham Collection |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents Note |
Part I: Understanding Motivation -- Chapter 1. The Challenge of Motivating Students -- Chapter 2. The Science of Motivation: The SEEKING System -- Part II: SEEKING in the Classroom: A Framework for Motivation -- Chapter 3. Exploratory Investigations: Level 1-- The Need to SEEK -- Chapter 4. Learning and Anticipation: Level 2-- SEEKING and Making Connections -- Chapter 5. Imagination and Synthesis: Level 3--Applying Higher Cognitive Processing -- Part III: Bringing It All Together: Engaging the SEEKING System -- Chapter 6. Leveraging the SEEKING System to Maximize Student Attention, Engagement, and Perseverance. |
| Summary Note |
What really motivates students to learn? What gets them interested, and keeps them interested, in pursuing knowledge and understanding? Recent neuroscientific findings have uncovered the source of our motivation to learn, or as neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp terms it, the drive to seek. Seeking is what gets us out of bed in the morning, the engine that powers our actions, and the need that manifests as curiosity. Informed by new findings on the nature of the brainâs seeking system, the authors have identified key brain-friendly strategies for improving student motivation, knowledge acquisition, retention, and academic success. The book covers: the science behind the motivated brain and how it relates to student learning; strategies for preparing a motivational environment and lesson; strategies for creating engaging learning experiences that capitalize on the brainâs natural ways of learning; strategies for improving depth of knowledge, complex thinking, and synthesis to get students into the ever-desired state of flow; and how attention to the neuroscience of motivation will improve the classroom environment and student learning. [Publisher website, ed] |
| Language Note |
In English.. |
| Subject |
Cognitive psychology |
| Learning |
| Motivation |
| Student attitudes |
| Teaching methods |
| Brain |
| Neurosciences |
| Cognitive processes |
| Motivation in education |
| Learning, Psychology of |
| Learning -- Physiological aspects |
| Learning -- Physiological aspects |
| Learning, Psychology of |
| Motivation in education |
| Added Name |
Kaufeldt, Martha,1954-,(author). |
| Added Corporate Name |
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) |
| ADDITIONAL TITLES |
The motivated brain |
