Moving Motivation Inside: Self-Determination Theory For Educators, and Parents, Too!

Moving Motivation Inside was written for the classroom teacher, first and foremost, but with school administrators, parents and others who work with young people likewise in mind. Yes, we want successful—and psychologically healthy—students. Yes, we want cooperative, thoughtful children. And yes educational achievement, especially in the United States, has been in a decline for the past three decades.Self-Determination Theory offers the fastest growing framework for motivation, social growth, and well-being in educational and psychological research today. The theory’s amazing growth over the past four decades is primarily due to its demonstrated success in addressing all three of the issues just mentioned: greater learning, happier and healthier young people, and warmer relationships with others.In this book, lifelong educator David Streight offers the most concise explanation of Self-Determination Theory currently available to the general reading public. He offers examples of how three fundamental psychological needs—the need for feeling self-directed, for human connection, and for feeling competent—have been applied, sometimes with astounding success, in a variety of states, in a variety of countries, in schools at all grade levels, both public and private.What we deeply want is young people who love what they are doing, and do it well because of that love. With a few adjustments, parents, coaches, work supervisors, and especially teachers can see these goals start to become reality. Read more