Summary
Contents
Subject index
Successful teachers are able to motivate and inspire the children they teach and this is a skill that can only be supported by understanding good practice. This book gives you smart, pragmatic guidance backed by evidence-based research on how to engage and inspire in your teaching. It looks at both how you can influence and shape the learning that goes on in your classroom and how you can apply key lessons to your own professional development as a teacher. Key coverage includes: • The psychology of motivation and its implications for the classroom • Behaviour for learning • Essential advice on of safeguarding, mental health and wellbeing • Active learning and engaging your pupils in the learning process • How to develop as a professional and empowered teacher
Empowering learners
Empowering learners
Chapter guide
In this chapter, you will learn about:
- Definitions of empowerment
- How to improve and maintain learning through pedagogies of empowerment
- How to share responsibility and accountability between teachers and pupils
- Lifelong learning: Building learning for life in pupils
- Empowering school structures: Including pupils and teachers in school decision-making
As we approach the end of this book, we turn our attention to a complex and often slippery concept: ‘empowerment’. Whereas for some, empowerment is merely another, perhaps generalised, term for motivation (Frymier et al., 1996), for others, empowerment represents a whole range of motivational processes that facilitate initial engagement with a task, continued motivation towards it, and finally, positive feelings associated with the task and the motivational process itself (Conger and Kanungo, 1988).
In Chapter 7, we explored ...
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