Creating Motivation: Activities To Make Learning Happen

Description: Creating Motivation offers practical strategies teachers can use to ignite their students’ motivation. Motivation is a central component of any learning endeavour, but it can be tricky to distinguish between students who are bored and restless, and students who are demotivated.

Creating Motivation includes practical, ready-to-use activities in three sections:

Group Processes offers activities that help the students to find their place in the group, get acquainted with each other and develop a feeling of belonging. Creating cohesive, trusting groups is a key role for the teacher.
Priming involves activities that demand concentration to get students ready for learning. It pays to dedicate the first few minutes of a lesson to eliminating distractions and focusing on the here and now.
Surprise and Stimulate uses different approaches and activity types to engage students both affectively and intellectually and challenge them to think.
Creating Motivation introduces a creative pedagogy that embraces teaching as an art form celebrating uncertainty and risk. Creative teachers are rewarded by their students’ enhanced motivation to learn.
The Resourceful Teacher Series
Great teachers’ handbooks with lots of inspiring ideas

A series of handbooks for teachers with innovative activities and techniques written by leading names in the field of ELT.

Aimed at teachers, teacher trainers and trainee teachers
Inspired by developments in linguistics, pedagogy, cognitive psychology and other disciplines
Offer practical ways of using key research findings to enrich teaching and learning
Include photocopiable activities with accompanying multimedia for classroom and training use