ASCD Webinars - Robyn Jackson, Mastering the Principles of Great Teaching

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Robyn Jackson: Mastering the Principles of Great Teaching Series

About the Presenter

Robyn R. Jackson, PhD, has been an educator for more than a decade. As a National Board Certified English teacher, she increased the enrollment of minority and nontraditional students in her AP Language and Composition classes and tripled her overall course enrollment within one year without a decrease in her students' test scores.

As a middle school administrator in Montgomery County, Maryland, she has worked to revise the district's Gifted and Talented policy to be more inclusive of all students and helped craft the district's critical Middle School Reform Plan. She also helped lead the largest middle school in the district to state and national Blue Ribbon status. As an educator, she has served as an adjunct professor and presents her own research at several national conferences.

How to Motivate Reluctant Students

How To Motivate Reluctant Learners

Recorded September 22, 2011

Traditional advice about motivating reluctant learners rarely works because it relies on complicated programs using rewards and punishments, carrots and sticks. In this webinar, Robyn R. Jackson shared an alternative view of motivation that helps teachers entice students to learn using their own currencies.

Learn what currencies are, how to determine what currencies students carry and value, and how to use the four universal currencies of autonomy, mastery, purpose, and belonging to motivate even your most reluctant learners.

Previous Robyn Jackson Webinars

How to Plan Rigorous Instruction (May 12, 2011)
Rigor is one of those words that is widely used but rarely understood. We all want to increase the rigor or our instruction but many of us don't know where to start. In this webinar, Robyn R. Jackson explained what rigorous instruction is, the four stages of rigorous instruction, how to move students successfully through each of the stages, and how to build struggling students' capacity for rigorous learning over time.

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Archived Robyn Jackson Webinars

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