Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I. The Theory
1. In the Beginning
2. "This Is Stupid" or Why Adolescents Quit Trying
3.The Classroom Management Toolkit
4. What We Know About Learning
5. What We Know About Motivation
Part II. The Activities
6. Maintaining Your Activity Level
7. Teaching Them to Study
8. Understanding Themselves Better
9. Culture-Based Activities
10. The Technology Mismatch
References
Jeffrey Miller spent eight years teaching middle school in urban
Los Angeles and four years designing student success programs at
Santa Monica College. Currently, he teaches courses in educational
psychology and classroom management at California State University,
Dominguez Hills. Miller is the managing director of the Miller
Consulting Group and provides consultation and professional
development to schools within Los Angeles and across the country,
where he delivers keynote addresses and facilitates schools through
organizational change. He completed his PhD in 2001 with a focus on
motivation and learning in adolescent classrooms.
Peter Desberg is a professor of graduate education and coordinator
of the Technology Based Education MA Program at California State
University, Dominguez Hills. He is also a licensed clinical
psychologist. Desberg is the author of 20 books and is a frequent
presenter and keynote speaker at national conventions. He was the
host of "Introduction to Computers" on the Los Angeles Unified
School District’s cable channel for ten years and has appeared on
many television shows and been written up in many newspapers and
magazines, including Psychology Today, The Wall Street Journal,
Cosmopolitan and Reader’s Digest.
“The book is engaging, appealing, humorous, and relevant to my
situation. Nice job!”
*David Callaway, Eighth-Grade Language Arts Teacher*
“This book addresses key issues and presents ideas on how to solve
those issues.”
*Kathryn McCormick, Seventh-Grade Teacher*
“This book is funny, entertaining, well written and well
documented, and informative.”
*Jolene Dockstader, Seventh-Grade Language Arts Teacher*
“This book should be on every middle and high school educators desk
and be required reading each summer. Miller and Desberg clearly
discuss many of the challenges that face our students and give
teachers, counselors, administrators, and parents real tools and
knowledge that should be implemented in every classroom.”
*Reginald Sirls, Director of Secondary Education*
“As a president of a nonprofit organization that stresses financial
literacy, I was impressed with the information in this book.
I read it as a service and knowledge provider to secondary
students, but found multiple applications to motivating and
understanding my own employees.”
*Gary W. Hickman, President*
“As a principal, I am always concerned that my teachers are looking
at and discussing the central issues of learning and motivation.
Not only does this book give them what they need, it gives them
several practical exercises to engage our learners. Good work.”
*Donna Jacobson, Principal*
"Miller and Desberg have produced a resource that educators will
turn to again and again as they encounter the day-to-day challenges
of motivating and teaching adolescent learners. It is one of those
rare books that effectively integrates theory, research, and
practice. Utilizing these methods will go a long way in helping
educators gain or regain the skills they need to make teaching the
gratifying experience it should be.”
*Judson H. Taylor, President Emeritus*
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