Motivating Students Who Don't Care: Successful Techniques for Educators, April/2009

This book is a comprehensive and practical guide for reconnecting with discouraged students and reawakening their excitement and enthusiasm for learning. With proven strategies from the classroom, Dr. Mendler identifies five effective processes you can use to reawaken motivation in students who aren't prepared, don't care, and won't work. These processes include emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power, building relationships, and expressing enthusiasm.

1. Examine the most common reasons students become unmotivated.
2. Discover five processes for educators trying to help their most difficult students.
3. Learn how the five processes (emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power, building relationships, and expressing enthusiasm) can be effective in building motivation.
4. Identify motivating strategies, and apply the five key processes to the challenge of changing students' lives.

About the Author:

Allen N. Mendler, Ph.D., is an educator and school psychologist who has worked extensively with children of all ages. As one of the internationally recognized authors of the Discipline With Dignity® program, Dr. Mendler has worked to develop effective strategies for educators and youth professionals to help challenging students succeed. Dr. Mendler is also the author of Just In Time, Power Struggles, and What Do I Do When…?, and the coauthor (with Dr. Richard Curwin) of The Four Keys to Effective Classroom and Behavior Management, As Tough as Necessary, and Discipline With Dignity for Challenging Youth.