Motivating Your Students: Before You Can Teach Them, You Have to Reach Them

Motivating Your Students provides tools and techniques to bring teaching to life and to effectively motivate students to learn.

Today's students ― raised on cable, video games, the Internet, and MTV ― demand more from their teachers than ever before. In order to reach these students and encourage them to want to learn, today's teachers must actively engage them in the learning process. This text focuses on helping teachers do just that, regardless of level of experience or subject matter.

Motivating Your Students provides real-life, practical suggestions, with a focus on lesson planning and teaching strategies. It focuses on effective communication strategies and presentation skills for classroom use to inspire students to enjoy learning.

This book will help teachers to do the following: understand and meet students' motivational needs; present information and structure education activities to match students' diverse personalities and learning styles; be more persuasive and influential; get and keep students' attention so that they participate more fully; use storytelling as a powerful tool to make abstract concepts more concrete; and make each lesson more memorable.

Hanoch McCarty is one of America's most sought-after keynote speakers. He is famous for his high energy, the appropriateness of his examples and stories, the drama and humor of his presentations, and the fact that he always interacts with his audiences in the most exciting way. He researches and custom designs each presentation.

His clients say that they've noticed conference participants are more involved, more active in each session and more satisfied with the entire conference when they've had a Hanoch McCarty keynote! The energy he imparts is infectious: he's got a flair for humor, for communicating his belief that we each can make a real difference if we truly commit to that goal. He is the most energetic presenter you'll ever see: he flies around the room. Using his own wireless microphone, he is able to reach every corner of the room and involve each and every member of the audience. The laughter is loud, the insights he imparts are deep and long-lasting.

Hanoch gives over 80 presentations each year all over the world. He has spoken in 16 countries including mainland China, Japan and Norway. He has spoken in most major cities in the United States as well. His client list includes: Quad/Graphics Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, Ortho Biotech, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Forest Service, Houston Public Schools, Dade County Schools, Broward County Schools, Nebraska Association of School Administrators, Arizona Association of School Administrators, the University of Phoenix, University of Dayton, Foster Grandparent Program, and similar groups all over the country. He speaks to school systems, college faculties, professional associations, medical practices, health maintenance organizations, dental groups, hospital staffs, law practices and industry groups.

He is the author of many books and training programs, including: Self Esteem in the Classroom: The Experts Speak; Growing Pains in the Classroom; Ten Keys to Successful Parent Involvement; Weekends: Great Ideas for Memorable Adventures; and Speaking to the Heart. With his wife Meladee, he is coauthor of five books, including the bestsellers, A 4 th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Chicken Soup for the Grandparent's Soul, Acts of Kindness: How to Create a Kindness Revolution; A Year of Kindness: 365 Ways to Spread Sunshine; and The Daily Journal of Kindness.

Hanoch's presentations have included

Finding the 'Easy Button': Reaching and Teaching the Fragile Learners at the Bottom of Every Class,

You Can Make THE Difference!,

The Awesome Power of Your Family's Stories,

The Hidden Power of Kindness in the Workplace;

Self-Esteem: The Bottom Line in Employee Motivation and Productivity;

and many presentations for public and private schools on the connection between self-esteem and school achievement. Bestspeaker.com PO . Box 66 Galt, CA 95632-0066