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Motivating Students Who Don't Care: Successful Techniques for Educators [Perfect Paperback]

Allen Mendler
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May 1, 2009
Motivating Students Who Don't Care 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, this resource identifies five effective processes the reader 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. Each process is fully explained and illustrated with proven strategies from the classroom. Questions for reflection will help the reader identify motivating strategies and apply the five key processes to the challenge of changing students lives.


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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.

Product Details

  • Perfect Paperback: 80 pages
  • Publisher: Solution Tree (May 1, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1935249673
  • ISBN-13: 978-1935249672
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Allen N. Mendler Ph.D., is an educator and psycologist who has worked extensively with children of all ages. As one of the internationally recognized authors of Discipline with Dignity, Dr. Mendler has worked to develop effective strategies for educators and youth professionals to help challenging students succeed.

Customer Reviews

This book gives specific tools to use to gain and keep classroom respect and decorum. Jewishmom  |  1 reviewer made a similar statement
If you teach, this is a book you will use until you've used it up. WritingGuy  |  2 reviewers made a similar statement
Really, really bad to you." He said it like I didn't know it was true. "Oh, I know. Chris Bowen  |  2 reviewers made a similar statement
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71 of 73 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Useful stuff at a great price July 6, 2007
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The only person who can motivate an unmotivated student is the unmotivated student. All a teacher can do is provide a classroom environment that maximizes the chances that his students will choose to get motivated.

And that's where this book comes in. It is packed with useful and practical suggestions sorted into five big ideas: Emphasizing Effort, Creating Hope, Respecting Power, Building Relationships, and Expressing Enthusiasm. A brief introduction, including research sources, is given for each big idea, then the author gets right to the strategies.

Don't be fooled by the relatively unassuming size and the more then reasonable price. If you teach, this is a book you will use until you've used it up. Then you can buy another copy and another, and you still won't be out the price of many of the educational motivation books that sit pristinely on my shelves collecting well-deserved dust.
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43 of 46 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Bending over backwards for students who don't care August 14, 2006
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This book contains a lot of useful information for the new teacher or the burned out teacher who needs a boost. It's useful in the sense that it tries to get teachers to stop taking negative beahvior personally (usually it's not about the teacher) and to use positive reinforcement as much as possible--always a good idea whenever you are trying to change behavior, be it animal or human! But I had to laugh out loud when the author suggests praising the consistently tardy student for being in class "most of the time." Give me a break!
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good tips for all September 12, 2009
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I deal with many unmotivated students. While I realize tht this is primarily a learned behavior and it takes time to unlearn it, this book has several good strategies to help kids get back into the "want to learn" mode. The ideas of emphasizing effort and restoring hope of passing or doing well in the class is difficult under the best circumstances. The book addresses these and, without being a spoiler, teaches teachers how to instill these in the students.
While the book does devote quite a bit to building character, (buzz word bingo there), it offers practical solutions to many of the problems that teachers face in today's "short attention span" classrooms.
While not for everyone (some teachers are just not charismatic enough to connect with students), this book is an excellent resource and I can heartily recommend it for upper elem ed through secondary ed.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, easily readable discussion of how to motivate students
Educators ought to keep this on their bookshelves for those times when they need new ideas on motivating their students.
Published 1 month ago by Tom
3.0 out of 5 stars Alright
This book was alright but a lot thinner than I had expected. Some of the information was good but it was all very vague.
Published 4 months ago by Punk Chick Nik
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
This book is awesome to me. It is a short read, and includes ways I can use to motivate my students in class. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Eugene
4.0 out of 5 stars "This class is boring.: Motivating unmotivated students
This little book (only vii + 69 pp) describes the factors underlying the correlation between personal efforts and personal success. Read more
Published 20 months ago by V.H. Amavilah
1.0 out of 5 stars Not for the classroom teacher, good for a edu student.
A teacher of 10 years, I am always reading and looking for more ways to reach out to my students. Needless to say, I was VERY disappointed in this book. Read more
Published 21 months ago by G. Lambert
4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful Reflection and Focus for the Practitioner
Overall the book is helpful for the practitioner working with middle and high school students. It supplies helpful strategies and insight, and reminds the reader that unmotivated... Read more
Published on April 14, 2011 by Overwhelmed Counselor
2.0 out of 5 stars Great book for primary school teachers with no background in education
My title pretty much says it all . . . this is a very simplistic book that could have been a phamplet instead. Read more
Published on March 27, 2011 by Flying Dustbin
4.0 out of 5 stars Thumbs up, with provisos
This slender volume at 65 pages purports to be a practical, "how to" book for educators who are unwilling to leave any child behind. Read more
Published on February 16, 2011 by A. Edward Wolfe
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
After reading the many positive reviews of this book, I felt disappointed in the advise given by Dr. Mendler. Read more
Published on August 29, 2010 by Bob, Houston, TX
4.0 out of 5 stars Building Effective Relationships
"Can I ask you something Mr. Bowen?" I had noticed him lingering, sort of wading in the doorway just after the bell.
"Sure. Read more
Published on July 30, 2010 by Chris Bowen
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