Engaging Students: The Next Level of Working on the Work

"Working on the Work (WOW) offers a motivational framework for improving student performance by improving the quality of school designed for students. In this second edition, author Phillip Schlechty incorporates what he's learned from the field and from the hundreds of workshops he and his organization, the Schlechty Center, have conducted since the book's first publication. WOW is a theory of motivation that tries to answer the question: "What can teachers build into the task and activities they design for students that will increase the prospect which students will find meaning in the tasks assigned?" The guide is filled with practical wisdom"--

Author: Phillip C. Schlechty
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 04/05/2011
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780470640081
ISBN10: 0470640081
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform
- Education | Teaching | General
- Education | Administration | Elementary & Secondary

About the Author

THE AUTHOR

PHILLIP C. SCHLECHTY is founder and CEO of the Schlechty Center for Leadership in School Reform. Schlechty is the author of Leading for Learning, Creating Great Schools, Working on the Work, Inventing Better Schools, Shaking Up the Schoolhouse, and Schools for the 21st Century.