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Middleweb has just published an excerpt from the chapter on developing “flow” that’s in my new book on student motivation. They’ve titled it Help Your Students Get Into the Learning Flow.

Mindshift, the popular KQED blog, has published an excerpt they’ve titled What Motivates A Student’s Interest in Reading and Writing.

Creating the Conditions for Student Motivation is the title of another excerpt from my book, and it’s appeared at Edutopia.

The Kindle & iBook Versions Of My New Student Motivation Book Are Available Now!

The Washington Post has published an excerpt from my new student motivation book. They took it from the chapter on transfer of learning and titled it The real stuff of schooling: How to teach students to apply knowledge.

All Student Hand-Outs From My New Student Motivation Book Now Online For Free

This is the cover of my upcoming third book on helping students develop intrinsic motivation (my own little trilogy 🙂 ). It will be published by Routledge in early 2015. You can also pre-order it at Amazon.

Here is some advance praise:

Rick Wormeli, Author of Fair Isn’t Always Equal:

“Truly one of the smartest guys in the room, author and teacher Larry Ferlazzo channels state of the art teaching into one book, compiling the best resources and thinking on student perseverance, particularly in middle and high school. It’s all here: deliberate practice, humor, transfer of learning, flow, autonomy, classroom management, competence, self-determination, feedback, and much more. Want to know the first step to both teaching smarter and motivating students? Move Building a Community of Self-Motivated Learners to the top of the reading stack.”

Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind:

Building a Community of Self-Motivated Learners is another volume of the warm yet practical teaching advice we expect from Larry Ferlazzo. Ferlazzo answers the most pressing concerns teachers have about managing the classroom and reaching the disenchanted or at-risk student—and provides more strategies, lesson plans, and resources than you could use in a year of teaching!”

Mai Xi Lee, Director of Social Emotional Learning, Sacramento City Unified School District, CA:

“Having strong intrinsic motivation is the key to persevering and succeeding in school, college, career, and life. In Building a Community of Self-Motivated Learners, Larry Ferlazzo offers some practical lessons and strategies on how to teach and foster intrinsic motivation for student success. A must-read for teachers as they work to support their students develop strong social emotional learning skills.”

Lara Hoekstra, high school teacher, CA:

“I’ve used the ideas and lessons in Larry Ferlazzo’s last two student motivation books very successfully in my own classroom, and the ones he talks about in this volume have had the same positive impact.”

You can get free resources from all my six books here, including downloading all student hand-outs from my previous two student motivation books.

Update On My Forthcoming Book On Student Motivation

If you’re interested, you can listen to a fifteen minute interview I did with School Leadership Briefing about the topics covering in my upcoming book, Building A Community of Self-Motivated Learners.

Here’s the Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. I Still Want to Know: How Do You Motivate Students?

Chapter 2. Still Want to Know: How Can You Best Handle Classroom Management?

Chapter 3. Still Want to Know: How Can You Get Students More Interested in Reading And Writing?

Chapter 4. How Can You Get Students to Transfer Their Knowledge and Skills From

One Class to Other Classes and Outside-of-School Situations?

Chapter 5. How Can You Help Students Want To Live A Physically Healthy Lifestyle?

Chapter 6. How Can You Help Students Get Into a State of “Flow”?

My New Book On Student Motivation To Be Published On March 27th – I’ll Begin Tweeting Excerpts Now!

Suggestions For Assisting Students To Develop Intrinsic Motivation To Learn

People Might Be Interested In This Interview I Did About My New Student Motivation Book

I Talk About Student Motivation On “Principal Center Radio”

Nice Review Of My Latest Book On Student Motivation