ABSTRACT
This chapter helps to explain how significant the factors "classroom management," "advance organizers," and "problem-based learning" are. It also helps to explain what influence motivation has on learning and what possibilities teachers have to motivate students. The chapter explains why select appropriate strategies to support student learning based on both the evidence that they will work and knowledge about what a student might need. It also explains that it is not necessary to convince everyone completely of own ideas. Advance organizers are one method for establishing a link between existing knowledge and new information and for defining and organizing the most important phases of upcoming instruction treating this new material. "Problem-based learning," a method that involves using a problem to present learning material, originated in the tradition of focusing instruction more strongly toward the learner. Empirical educational research offers several practical models to help teachers meet this challenge, to see themselves as change agents again and again and act accordingly.
