3 Minute Motivators: More Than 200 Simple Ways to Reach, Teach, and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined - Softcover

Paterson, Kathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551382954 ISBN 13: 9781551382951

Publisher: Pembroke Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

This jam-packed new edition of 3 Minute Motivators features more than 200 activities; 75% more refocusing activities to help teachers keep students interested and learning. This handy resource helps teachers recognize and respond to the daily needs of their students and distract, refocus, and provide a “hit of fun” in the school day, this book helps make teaching easier and students more involved, focused, motivated, and self-aware.

New material in this practical book explores novel ways to inspire students as well as to build and practice important life skills. New “Tech Too motivators” raise awareness, understanding, and appreciation of technology and support research techniques, as well as communication skills, cognition, and memory. “Stress Attack motivators” are perfect for any time stress, anxiety, frustration, boredom, even anger get in the way of positive behavior -- in the classroom or anywhere. Based on therapeutic disciplines, teachers and students alike can use these strategies to defuse negative situations in daily life and turn students back to the reason they’re in school, their learning.

About this title

About the Author:

Kathy Paterson is a teacher consultant in the areas of motivation, language arts, and drama. A former teacher and drama specialist, Kathy has more than 35 years of classroom experience and is involved in teacher training with several universities. A popular speaker and writer on topics that range from differentiation to effective learning practices, Kathy's books have been translated in the Czech Republic, Germany, Holland, Indonesia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, and Sweden.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pembroke Publishers
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1551382954
• ISBN 13: 9781551382951
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160