Motivating People to Learn

A frank and plain-spoken account of how to make use of intrinsic motivation to power the learning process at all levels of education, for students of any age.

Using examples from many different educational settings, the author describes in detail these twelve powerful strategies that will help any teacheror trainer makesignificant improvements totheir students'' motivation for learning:

Starting with the learners questions

Making use of constructive competitiveness

Giving students the right level of challenge

Getting students to interpret original data

Making the learning experience hands on

Allowing students the maximum freedom to play with ideas

Shattering students complacency

Giving constructive feedback

Giving learners the opportunity to excel

Providing students with the means to judge their own progress

Co-operative learning techniques, and

Exposing students to motivated people.