Choose to Learn: Teaching for Success Every Day [Paperback]

Discover how the application of eight powerful principles can motivate students, increase every learner's self-confidence, and encourage individuals to go beyond familiar goals to take manageable risks.Discover how the application of eight powerful principles can motivate students, increase every learner's self-confidence, and encourage individuals to go beyond familiar goals to take manageable risks. By recognizing the addictive and cyclical nature of failure, the educator and student alike can overcome this barrier and reach their full potential. The authors identify the core issues of classroom failure and provide solutions to promote lifelong learning and achievement. A richly researched book, both in terms of educational literature and two lives spent in the service of student learning. The authors have developed clear models and methods that are helpful for educators to fulfill the promise of pedagogythat is, to lead a child toward learning. This book is a significant contribution to move our conversations of what education is truly about in a successful direction. There is a real power in this book. It offers a way of understanding failure and?of helping to counter and overcome it. Not only does it offer a message of possibility and hope to learners and teachers alike, but it fosters an eagerness and resolve to put the strategies for changing behavior and attitudes into practice. The authors have taken learning theory and captured the essence in a highly engaging and readable style. Their work has so much application to the field. I'm thinking now about how I can incorporate the principles in my instruction. Particularly meaningful to me was the point that teachers should not try so hard to explain why children are not learning; they should spend their efforts on helping them experience authentic success. This little book is full of big and powerful ideas. The alƒb