Learning to Choose Choosing to Learn: The Key to Student Motivation and Achievement - Softcover

Mike Anderson (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416621830 ISBN 13: 9781416621836

Publisher: ASCD, 2016

Synopsis

Offering students choices about their learning, says author Mike Anderson, is one of the most powerful ways teachers can boost student learning, motivation, and achievement. In his latest book, Anderson offers numerous examples of choice in action, ideas to try with different students, and a step-by-step process to help you plan and incorporate choice into your classroom. You'll explore

* What effective student choice looks like in the classroom.
* Why it's important to offer students choices.
* How to create learning environments, set the right tone for learning, and teach specific skills that enable choice to work well.

When students have more choices about their learning, they can find ways of learning that match their personal needs and be more engaged in their work, building skills and work habits that will serve them well in school and beyond. This teacher-friendly guide offers everything you need to help students who are bored, frustrated, or underperforming come alive to learning through the fundamental power of choice.

About this title

About the Author

A fifth grade teacher in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Mike Anderson has taught for thirteen years. He is also a consultant for the Northeast Foundation for Children and has taught at the Summer Literacy Institutes at the University of New Hampshire. He was awarded a national Milken Educator Award for excellence in teaching in 2004 and was a finalist for New Hampshire Teacher of the Year in 2005. Mike lives in Durham, New Hampshire, with his wife, Heather, and their two children, Ethan and Carly.

Edition details

• Publisher: ASCD
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1416621830
• ISBN 13: 9781416621836
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160