1st Edition

Parent Involvement for Motivated Learners Encouraging Self-Directed and Resilient Students

By Alyssa Gonzalez-DeHass Copyright 2020
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

Parent Involvement for Motivated Learners provides pre-service teachers and researchers with guidance on how to foster mindful, healthy school–family partnerships that empower students to become resilient, self-directed learners. Given the intense academic pressures on students to succeed – and on parents and teachers to help them do so – it is important to develop learners who can weather... Read more

1. Building School Communities: Shared Goals and Empowered Parents 2. Authentic Homework Assignments: A Push for Making Homework into Meaningful Learning Tasks (with Patricia Willems) 3. Intrinsic Motivation to Learn: Encouraging Parents to Let Students Take the Driver's Seat 4. Parental Involvement that Encourages Children's Growth Mindset and Resilient Learning 5. Self-Regulated Learning: How Parents Can Help Children Take Personal Responsibility for Their Learning

Biography

Alyssa R. Gonzalez-DeHass is a Professor of Educational Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, USA.