Motivating Every Learner

Alan McLean is Principal Educational Psychologist at Glasgow City Council.

PART ONE: WHAT MAKES PUPILS TICK What Makes Pupils Tick What Pupils Need PART TWO: WHAT PUPILS DO TO MOTIVATE THEMSELVES What Pupils Do to Motivate Themselves What Pupils Need to Meet Their Needs for Themselves How Resilience Shapes How Pupils Meet Their Needs How Pupils Feel about Themselves: Their Emotions as Their Personal Guide PART THREE: WHAT TEACHERS DO What Teachers Do to Motivate Their Pupils Teaching Styles PART FOUR: HOW PUPILS ADAPT The Learning Stances The Layers of the Matrix PART FIVE: THE STANCE-SPECIFIC TEACHING STYLES AND ENERGIZERS The Opposing Reaction The Alarming and Draining Reaction The Hiding Reaction The Exasperating Reaction The Positive Learning Stances Recap, Recurring Themes and Concluding Thoughts Appendix 1: How are the Three As Met in Your School? Appendix 2: How Motivating is My Classroom?

'It is helpful at least now and then for language teachers to read a book on a key topic - such as this one - which has drawn on a substantially different literature than that which is normally consulted by writers in out field...Extremely accessible and reader friendly. Highly recommended' - The Teacher Trainer Journal ''If you want to understand what makes for a motivated (or a de-motivated) learner in comtemporary classrooms, you could not do better than read, understand and apply the insights of Motivating Every Learner' - Scottish Educational Review