NEW FROM UCLA CENTER

Engaging and Re-engaging Students and Families:

Four Units for Continuing Education

This set of CE units is available to any and all. The units provides a perspective on motivation that goes beyond mainly reinforcing and enforcing behavior.

The emphasis is on:

>expanding understanding of engagement, re-engagement, and intrinsic motivation in the context of school improvement and school climate

>highlighting strategic approaches to engaging and re-engaging students, with special attention to avoiding over-reliance on extrinsic reinforcers

   and minimizing practices that can produce reactance

>engaging and re-engaging families by attending to differences among families and other primary care-takers with respect to resources, motivation

   and needs, and barriers to involvement with the school

>stressing that teachers can’t and should not be expected to do it all alone. Rather, their work needs to be embedded into a unified and comprehensive

   system of learning supports and that system should be built with a view to engaging and re-engaging students, families, and all the professional who

   have a stake in improving schools.

Unit I: Motivation: Time to Move Beyond Behavior Modification –

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/engagei.pdf

Unit II: Strategic Approaches to Enhancing Student Engagement and Re‑engagement –

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/engageii.pdf

Unit III: Enhancing Family Engagement and Re-engagement –

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/engageiii.pdf

Unit IV:  Embedding Engagement and Re-engagement into a Unified and Comprehensive System of Student and Learning Supports –

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/engageiv.pdf

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