Motivated Minds: Raising Children to Love Learning (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780805063950)

A practical guide to ensuring your child's success in school.

What makes children succeed in school? For the past twenty years, the focus has been on building children's self-esteem to help them achieve more in the classoom. But positive reinforcement hasn't necessarily resulted in measureable academic improvement. Through extensive research, combined with ongoing classroom implementation of their ideas, Deborah Stipek, Dean of the School of Education at Stanford, and Kathy Seal have created a program that will encourage motivation and a love of learning in children from toddlerhood through elementary school.

Stipek and Seal maintain that parents and teachers can build a solid foundation for learning by helping children to develop the key elements of success: competency, autonomy, curiosity, and critical relationships. The authors offer both practical advice on understanding different learning styles and down-to-earth tips about how to manage difficult issues -- competition, grades, praise, bribes, and rewards -- that inevitably arise for parents and teachers.

Most important, Stipek and Seal help parents create an enriching environment for their children at home that will mesh with the school experience and become a positive, effective climate for learning.

Author: Deborah J. Stipek
ISBN-10: 0805063951
ISBN-13: 9780805063950
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2000
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2001 pg. 1104
Publishers Weekly 03/12/2001 pg. 84
BookPage 08/01/2001 pg. 15
Publishers Weekly 03/11/2001
Library Journal 05/15/2001