Veteran educator and consultant Mike Anderson joins the podcast this week to discuss his ninth book, Tackling the Motivation Crisis: How to Activate Student Learning Without Behavior Charts, Pizza Parties, and Other Hard-to-Quit Incentive Systems. Mike and Ross discuss: Evidence of the motivation crisis in schools — but why it also may not be as bad as it seems What’s wrong with incentives? Why incentive systems are so hard to quit The six key intrinsic motivators and how educators can use them to get students engaged “We need to make sure students’ academic work is compelling and interesting enough that they will want to do it.” The times when extrinsic motivation might work Tackling the Motivation Crisis is published by ASCD. Find it HERE. Additional Resources: Access Mike’s LiveBinder with many more resources on tackling the motivation crisis: LiveBinder Link Learn about Mike’s eCourse on Tackling the Motivation Crisis. Subscribe to The Authority to get more deep-dive interviews with education authors. It’s available wherever you get your podcasts. Visit https://bepodcast.network to learn more about the Be Podcast Network for educators. About today’s guest Mike Anderson has been an educator for more than 25 years. A public school teacher for 15 years, he has also taught preschool, coached swim teams, and taught university graduate level classes. He now works as a consultant, providing professional learning for teachers throughout the United States and beyond. In 2020, he was awarded the Outstanding Educational Leader Award by NHASCD for his work as a consultant. Learn more at https://leadinggreatlearning.com or connect on Twitter @balancedteacher About the host Ross Romano is a co-founder of the Be Podcast Network and CEO of September Strategies LLC, a consulting firm that helps organizations and high-performing leaders in the K-12 education industry communicate their vision and make strategic decisions that lead to long-term success. Connect on Twitter @RossBRomano
Veteran educator and consultant Mike Anderson joins the podcast this week to discuss his ninth book, Tackling the Motivation Crisis: How to Activate Student Learning Without Behavior Charts, Pizza Parties, and Other Hard-to-Quit Incentive Systems.
Mike and Ross discuss:
- Evidence of the motivation crisis in schools — but why it also may not be as bad as it seems
- What’s wrong with incentives?
- Why incentive systems are so hard to quit
- The six key intrinsic motivators and how educators can use them to get students engaged
- “We need to make sure students’ academic work is compelling and interesting enough that they will want to do it.”
- The times when extrinsic motivation might work
Tackling the Motivation Crisis is published by ASCD. Find it HERE.
Additional Resources:
Subscribe to The Authority to get more deep-dive interviews with education authors. It’s available wherever you get your podcasts. Visit https://bepodcast.network to learn more about the Be Podcast Network for educators.
About today’s guest
Mike Anderson has been an educator for more than 25 years. A public school teacher for 15 years, he has also taught preschool, coached swim teams, and taught university graduate level classes. He now works as a consultant, providing professional learning for teachers throughout the United States and beyond. In 2020, he was awarded the Outstanding Educational Leader Award by NHASCD for his work as a consultant. Learn more at https://leadinggreatlearning.com or connect on Twitter @balancedteacher
About the host
Ross Romano is a co-founder of the Be Podcast Network and CEO of September Strategies LLC, a consulting firm that helps organizations and high-performing leaders in the K-12 education industry communicate their vision and make strategic decisions that lead to long-term success. Connect on Twitter @RossBRomano
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