TY - BOOK AU - McCarty,Hanoch AU - Siccone,Frank TI - Motivating your students: before you can teach them, you have to reach them SN - 0205322603 U1 - 370.154 PY - 2001/// CY - Boston, Mass. PB - Allyn and Bacon KW - Motivation in education N1 - 1. Introduction. - 2. What Motivates People?. - 3. What Is a Motivational Teacher?. - 4. Motivation and the Power of Persuasion. - 5. Know Your Students. - 6.Motivation and Learning Styles. - 7. Attention-Getters. - 8. Motivating through the Power of the Story. - 9. Benefirts versus Costs. - 10. Persuasive Presentation Tools. - 11. Make It Memorable N2 - Convinced that "teaching is a performing art," McCarty and Siccone have teamed up to write a handbook for teachers of K-12 and beyond. They describe key methods of both maximizing your powers of persuasion and engaging students in spirited discussions. Utilizing [the authors] advice on story telling, personality theories, and a multitude of other motivational tactics, [teaching can be enhanced] to reach anyone in classroom ER -