Excited to Learn - Motivation and Culturally Responsive Teaching (Paperback)

Exited to Learn, organized around Ginsberg and Wlodkowski's highly-acclaimed Motivational Framework for Culturally-Responsive Teaching, is an extensively field-tested and research-validated pedagogical model that helps teachers plan and reflect on lessons in ways that work together to enhance student motivation and learning. This book is filled with a plethora of instructional strategies based on the four conditions of the framework: inclusion, attitude, meaning, and competence. This book: emphasizes the unique needs of linguistically-diverse students as well as students with special needs; emphasizes strategies for working with families, promoting family engagement, and using family members as a resource for developing teacher funds of knowledge; and, includes coverage linking the applicability of the Motivational Framework to Common Core Standards implementation work with particular emphasis on the importance of "meaning."