ABSTRACT
The previous four chapters focused on aspects of motivation that contribute to engaged, goaldirected behavior: goal setting, extrinsic rewards, intrinsic motivation and values, and personal interest. In each chapter, strategies for using these concepts to promote motivation to learn were introduced. These strategies will be especially useful for whole-class instruction and for promoting motivation to learn in all students on an ongoing basis. At times, however, you will be faced with students who do not have any interest in or value for school, who do have personal goals to learn, and who do not respond to extrinsic rewards. For these uninterested and alienated students, more focused strategies are needed to get them to re-engage. Apathy is their primary motivational problem.
