TOPIC: Motivation

The following reflects our most recent response for technical assistance related to this topic. This list represents a sample of information to get you started and is not meant to be exhaustive.
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Center Developed Resources and Tools

Article/Publications

• L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (1999). Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account for Motivational and Developmental Differences. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15 (4), 255-276.
• The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports in the Classroom and Schoolwide

Continuing Education Modules

• Continuing Education Module: Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom Focused Enabling

Information Sheets

• Information Sheet: About School Engagement and Re-Engagement

Introductory Packets

• Introductory Packet: Learning Problems and Learning Disabilities

Newsletters

• Newsletter: Concerns = Opportunities: Addressing Student Disengagement, Acting Out, and Dropouts by Moving in New Directions
• Newsletter: Enabling Learning in the Classroom: A Primary Mental Health Concern (Spring, '98)
• Newsletter: Re-engaging Students in Learning at School. (Winter, '02)

Practice Notes

• Practice Notes: About Motivation

Quick Training Aids

• Quick Training Aid: Re-engaging Students in Learning

Technical Aid Packets

• Technical Aid Packet: Guiding Parents in Helping Children

Training Tutorials

• Training Tutorial: Classroom Changes to Enhance and Re-engage Students in Learning

• Advancing Knowledge and Training on Self-Determination
• Brief intervention and motivational interviewing with children, adolescents, and their parents in pediatric health care settings: A review
• Center for Human Motivation, Learning and Development, University of Denver
• "Classroom assessment and Student Motivation" (2003) Research Brief: Translating Education Research in Action 1(17), Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• "The Early College High School Initiative"
• Engaging Schools Fostering High School Students' Motivation to Learn. National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine (2004)
• Enhancing Student Connectedness to Schools: an issue brief from the School Mental Health Analysis and Action
• ERIC Digest: Student Motivation to Learn
• ERIC Digest: School Leadership and Student Motivation
• ERIC Digest: Motivation and Middle School Students
• ERIC Digest: Motivation in Instructional Design
• Hard Work and High Expectations: Motivating Students to Learn
• How Can Teachers Develop Students' Motivation -- and Success?
• Improving Student Motivation in the Secondary Classroom through the Use of Critical Thinking Skills, Cooperative Learning Techniques, and Reflective Journal Writing
• Improving the Motivation of Middle School Students through the Use of Curricular and Instructional Adaptations
• Increasing Student Engagement and Motivation
• Instructional Models, Strategies, Methods, and Skills
• Intrinsic Motivation
• Motivation for Learning: Parents Can Help
• Motivating Students
• Multiple Pathways: High School Reform that Promises to Prepare All Students for College, Career, and Civic Responsibility
• School Connectedness and Meaningful Student Participation
• Self-Determination for People with Psychiatric Disabilities
• Self-Determination Theory: An Approach to Human Motivation and Personality
• Student Motivation, School Culture, and Academic Achievement What School Leaders Can Do
• Using Student Engagement of Improve Adolescent Literacy
• When Students Do Not Feel Motivated for Literacy Learning: How a Responsive Classroom Culture Helps

• Learning Problems & Learning Disabilities: Moving Forward
• School Avoidance Behavior: Motivational Bases and Implications for Intervention

• "The concept of intrinsic motivation: Implications for practice and research with the learning disabled." Learning Disability Quarterly, 1, 43-54. By H.S. Adelman (1978).
• "Enhancing motivation for overcoming learning and behavior problems." Journal of Learning Disabilities, 16, 384-392. By H.S. Adelman and L. Taylor (1983b).
• Healthy Classroom Management: Motivation, Communication, and Discipline. By R. Nakamura (1999). Wadsworth Pub. Co.
• Helping Students Develop Self-Motivation. By D.R. Grossnickle (1989). National Association of Secondary School Principals.
• "Intrinsic motivation and school misbehavior: Some intervention implications." Journal of Learning Disabilities, 23, 541-550. By H.S. Adelman and L. Taylor (1990).
• Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior (Perspectives in Social Psychology. E.L. Deci (1985). Plenum Pub. Corp.
• The Learner-Centered Classroom and School: Strategies for Increasing Student Motivation and Achievement. By B.L. McCombs et al. (eds). (1997). Jossey-Bass Publishers.
• "Motivation and Effective Teaching." Educational Values and Cognitive Instruction: Implications for Reform. By R. Ames & C. Ames (1991). Hillsdale: L. Erlbaum and Associates, p. 247-272.
• Motivation to Learn: From Theory to Practice. By D. Stipek (1997). Allyn & Bacon.
• On Understanding Intervention in Psychology and Education. By H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1994). Praeger Pub Text.
• Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes. By A. Kohn (1999). Allyn & Bacon.
• Student Motivation: Cultivating a Love of Learning. By L.S. Lumsden (1999). Eric Clearinghouse on Educational Management.
• When Students Choose Content: A Guide to Increasing Motivation, Autonomy, and Achievement. By J. Passe (1996). Corwin Pr.
• Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation. By E. Deci & R. Flaste (1996). Penguin USA.

• National Research Center on Student Learning
• TrackStar: Motivation in the Classroom
• WAVE for Teens

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