Engaging Students: The Next Level of Working on the Work; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Author; About the Schlechty Center; Part One: Engagement; One: Introduction; Two: The Meaning of Engagement; Part Two: The Framework; Three: Motives and Motivation; Four: The Engagement-Focused School; Five: Prototypes and Design Specifications; Six: An Alternative View of Teaching; Part Three: New Roles in Our Schools; Seven: The Teacher's Role: Leader, Designer, and Guide to Instruction; Eight: The Principal's Role: Leader of Leaders; Nine: The Superintendent's Role: Moral and Intellectual Leader
Ten: Rethinking AccountabilityAppendix: A Framework for Reflection and Discussion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Working on the Work (WOW) offers a motivational framework for improving student performance by improving the quality of school designed for students. In this second edition, author Phillip Schlechty incorporates what he's learned from the field and from the hundreds of workshops he and his organization, the Schlechty Center, have conducted since the book's first publication. WOW is a theory of motivation that tries to answer the question: "What can teachers build into the task and activities they design for students that will increase the prospect which students will find meaning in the tasks
