Motivating Minds

How to Promote Engagement and Participation in K-12 Classrooms

Elisheva Zeffren

Would you like to establish an animated classroom atmosphere where students are motivated to gain skills, absorb knowledge, express opinions, and examine alternatives? Would you like your students to reflect on the quality of their thinking and learning? With her usual eloquence, Elisheva Zeffren articulates students’ need to think critically, formulate conclusions, and uncover what is relevant and important to modern life. The lucid writing style, easy-to-read charts, creative exercises, practical and concrete goals, make this book simple to revisit. Educators can take the innovative ideas back to their classrooms and implement them with little or no preparation.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 218 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-4758-3637-0 • Hardback • June 2017 • $89.00 • (£68.00)

978-1-4758-3638-7 • Paperback • June 2017 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

978-1-4758-3639-4 • eBook • June 2017 • $42.50 • (£35.00)

Subjects: Education / Classroom Management, Education / Professional Development, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General

Motivating Minds

How to Promote Engagement and Participation in K-12 Classrooms

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Summary

Would you like to establish an animated classroom atmosphere where students are motivated to gain skills, absorb knowledge, express opinions, and examine alternatives? Would you like your students to reflect on the quality of their thinking and learning? With her usual eloquence, Elisheva Zeffren articulates students’ need to think critically, formulate conclusions, and uncover what is relevant and important to modern life. The lucid writing style, easy-to-read charts, creative exercises, practical and concrete goals, make this book simple to revisit. Educators can take the innovative ideas back to their classrooms and implement them with little or no preparation.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 218 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-4758-3637-0 • Hardback • June 2017 • $89.00 • (£68.00)

978-1-4758-3638-7 • Paperback • June 2017 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

978-1-4758-3639-4 • eBook • June 2017 • $42.50 • (£35.00)

Subjects: Education / Classroom Management, Education / Professional Development, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General

Author

Elisheva Zeffren is currently an educational consultant and high school teacher in Brooklyn, New York. Miss Zeffren confers closely with the faculty who welcome her assistance.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Creating Anticipation
Chapter 2: Using the “Fun Theory” to Engage Students in Learning
Chapter 3: Pursuing Wonder
Chapter 4: Musing for Mental Exercise
Chapter 5: Sending Students on Discovery Missions
Chapter 6: Promoting Participation
Chapter 7: Coaching with Cooperative Learning
Chapter 8: Practice Prime Problem Solving
Chapter 9: Discovering with Cognitive and Social Experiments
Chapter 10: Conducting Surveys
Chapter 11: Fostering Public Speaking
Bibliography
Student Testimonials
About the Author

Reviews

Motivating Minds provides innovative ideas and activities to bring out the best in your students, immersing everyone in the joy of learning, discovery, and collaboration. Read it and reap!
— Sam Horn, Author of "Tongue Fu!" and "Take the Bully by the Horns"

What you have here is a magnificent tool-kit of educational methods which will get your students to use their brains easily and brilliantly. If there was ever a time educators could use this book, it is now!
— David J. Lieberman, New York Times Bestselling Author of Never Be Lied To Again