Motivating Children with Specific Learning Difficulties

Motivating Children with Specific Learning Difficulties provides a comprehensive and definitive guide to what teachers need to know about motivation in pupils with Specific Learning Difficulties, including dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD. This book provides teachers with an increased understanding of why particular strategies should be used with their pupils and recognises the challenge of motivating children with learning difficulties.

Autorentext

Gad Elbeheri is Dean of the Australian College of Kuwait.

Gavin Reid is an independent international educational psychologist based in the UK and Vancouver, Canada.

John Everatt is Professor of Education at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Klappentext

Motivating Children with Specific Learning Difficulties provides a comprehensive and definitive guide to what teachers need to know about motivation in pupils with Specific Learning Difficulties, including dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD. This book provides teachers with an increased understanding of why particular strategies should be used with their pupils and recognises the challenge of motivating children with learning difficulties.

Inhalt

1. Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) in Context: Research to Practice 2. The Process of Motivation 3. Theories of Motivation 4. Factors of Motivation 5. Motivating Students with Reading Difficulties 6. Motivating Students with Writing Difficulties 7. Motivating Students with Mathematics Difficulties 8. Motivating Students with Motor Coordination Difficulties 9. Motivating Students with Attention, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties 10. Motivation and Self-concept 11. Motivation: The Role of Assistive Technology 12. Motivation: The Role of School and Family 13. Conclusions and Reflections References