Improving Teacher Morale and Motivation

Improving Teacher Morale and Motivation
Author: Ronald Williamson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000931293

Improving Teacher Morale and Motivation discusses a key issue for school leaders: motivating teachers to improve learning for students. Immense and unprecedented changes in education—primarily with the pandemic and "great resignation"—have affected all areas of teaching and learning, including teacher morale and motivation. This engaging book takes an in-depth focus on student learning as it relates to teacher motivation, providing specific examples of how to motivate teachers during challenging times. Specific tools, templates, and strategies are incorporated throughout the book to help leaders understand and act on issues of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, collaboration and trust, growth mindset, effective feedback, and more. Further, this text incorporates a broader look at how school leaders can shape their school and make it a place where teachers want to work, where they are committed to the success of students, and where they see themselves remaining well into the future. This timely book is appropriate for all school leaders, including teacher-leaders and district leaders.

Motivating & Inspiring Teachers

Motivating & Inspiring Teachers
Author: Todd Whitaker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317930703

Like the best-selling first edition, this book is filled with strategies to motivate your staff and maintain a high level of energy at your school. This guide will help all educators approach work every day in an enthusiastic, focused, and positive state of mind. This book will help you: -Motivate your faculty with the Friday Focus--a staff memo that works! -Understand the power of praise and how to best utilize it every day -Make sure staff meetings, teacher evaluation, and daily activities raise the energy level in your school -Maximize the holidays, open house nights, and other special events the make your staff feel special

These 6 Things

These 6 Things
Author: Dave Stuart Jr.
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1506391028

Dave Stuart Jr.’s work is centered on a simple belief: all students and teachers can flourish. These 6 Things is all about streamlining your practice so that you’re teaching smarter, not harder, and kids are learning, doing, and flourishing in ELA and content-area classrooms. In this essential resource, teachers will receive: Proven, classroom-tested advice delivered in an approachable, teacher-to-teacher style that builds confidence Practical strategies for streamlining instruction in order to focus on key beliefs and literacy-building activities Solutions and suggestions for the most common teacher and student “hang-ups” Numerous recommendations for deeper reading on key topics

Money for Good Grades and Other Myths about Motivating Kids

Money for Good Grades and Other Myths about Motivating Kids
Author: Barbara R. Blackburn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2019
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780429429385

In this helpful resource, the author guides parents through the top eight myths about motivation and reveals what really works for kids. Each chapter is filled with practical information and stories that help you understand how to handle a variety of situations related to your child's success at school. Chapters also include specific classroom connections for each strategy, so you can begin proactively working with your child's teacher. With the accessible advice in this book, you'll be able to reach your child more effectively so that he or she is more motivated from within, and more successful in school and beyond!

Essential Motivation in the Classroom

Essential Motivation in the Classroom
Author: Ian Gilbert
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415643546

Ian Gilbert takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through the theories of teaching. On the way the author highlights seven key factors that affect motivation and offers a range of strategies to help teachers implement and use them at the chalk face.

Motivating and Inspiring Teachers

Motivating and Inspiring Teachers
Author: Todd Whitaker
Publisher: Eye On Education
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1596671033

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Lazy Teacher's Handbook

The Lazy Teacher's Handbook
Author: Jim Smith
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2010-02-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1845904095

Ever wondered what would happen if you stopped teaching in your lessons? You might be surprised. If you want your students to learn more and you to work less, then this book provides you with all the arguments and evidence you need to become a lazy, but outstanding teacher. Gathered over 10 years in the classroom, this handbook of tried-and-tested techniques shifts the emphasis away from the teaching and onto the learning, and makes your life so much easier in the process. Fed up missing out on those sunny Sundays? Maybe your marking could be done by the local community instead? Sick of planning lessons? Get the students to plan them for you. (After all, personalised learning can't involve 30 lesson plans!). This powerful book is packed full of easy-to-apply and highly effective strategies (which Ofsted have rated as 'outstanding' ). What's more, they all have the seal of approval of real students in real classrooms. In fact, many of them have been thought up by the students themselves, but that's why Jim Smith is called the Lazy Teacher. So, next time someone says to you to get a life, this book will make it possible.

Leading With Teacher Emotions in Mind

Leading With Teacher Emotions in Mind
Author: Kenneth Leithwood
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2007-12-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452294224

"Clears out the bureaucratic techniques of impersonal management and focuses the core of leadership on dealing with school change as a most human endeavor. When all is said and done, the quality of education revolves around the aspirations, commitments, and wellness of teachers giving their best." —Carl Glickman, Scholar in Residence The University of Georgia Develop a leadership approach that responds to the emotional needs of teachers! School leaders know that an engaged and committed faculty is critical to student learning and the success of a school community, yet traditional leadership practices often fail to take the affective needs of teachers into consideration. Kenneth Leithwood and Brenda Beatty draw on theory and empirical evidence to show how teachers′ emotional well-being can affect their performance in the classroom. This invaluable resource provides principals and other school leaders with specific practices to positively influence teacher perspectives, and examines teacher emotions in five key areas: Job satisfaction and morale Stress, anxiety, and burn-out Sense of individual and collective self-efficacy Organizational commitment and engagement Willingness and motivation to improve their practices When educational leaders create conditions that support teachers in their work, schools can experience higher teacher retention rates, improved climate and culture, and increased student achievement.

Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South

Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South
Author: Sharon Tao
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137495456

A common story of teachers from the Global South portrays them as deficient, unreliable and unprofessional. However, this book uses an innovative Capability Approach/Critical Realist lens to reveal the causal links between teachers' constrained capabilities and their 'criticised' behaviours and offer nuanced, creative strategies for improvements.