What You Need to Know about Motivation and Teaching Games: An in-depth analysis
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"What You Need to Know about Motivation and Teaching Games: An in-depth analysis" is essential for anyone working with learners with social delays, including learners with Autism. This book dedicates significant attention to learner motivation, the ability of teachers to establish learner motivation, and, most importantly, the ability of teachers to identify whether their learners are interested. This book describes the philosophical underpinnings of various methods for teaching learners to enjoy playing games, and does so in a way that creates thoughtful, creative teachers. Further, this book provides scripts for teaching 12 specific games. For each game, the author describes: why the game is valuable, prerequisites, a basic instructional protocol, finer points, variations, and data. An emphasis is placed, throughout this book, on teacher responsiveness to student performance. Teachers will learn how to help their students actually enjoy playing games.
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"Highly Recommended Book!"
Steve Ward has a unique connection with children on the Autism spectrum. He is well-trained and has used his skills to come up with some of the most creative methods for teaching children who, at times and in some areas, seem unteachable. The combination of Steve's sense of humor and his understanding of behavior has enabled him to reach children through teaching common games and he explains well the reason for the game and the benefits that can be derived from it in this book. Many behavioral books are written with cumbersome jargon, but I find Steve Ward's style of writing easy to follow. Don't miss an opportunity to own this book, it truly is a "must-have"!
If your goal is to teach your child how to play games and to get the most of his play activities, you might as well go to the expert. In Steve Ward's book, "What You Need to Know about Motivation and Teaching Games: An In-depth Analysis", Steve focuses in on 12 universal and useful games while discussing the "how" and "why" of learning game play. He uses his years of experience as a BCBA to break games into their most logical steps and teach them in a way that mazimizes their value ot your child both as a means of development and fun.
Robert Schramm
"I Am Recommending This Book to Everyone!!"
About a month ago (on a plane trip home from an ABA conference), I read the book--What You Need to Know About Motivation and Teaching Games by Steven Ward, MA, BCBA. I literally started recommending the book right away to the person sitting next to me and have recommended it to dozens of people in the past few weeks.
As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and mother of a 12-year-old son with autism, I found this book to be a very useful guide to help parents and professionals learn how to most effectively teach children with autism to play games. The step-by-step breakdown of how to teach 12 common games is excellent and the data... More >
About a month ago (on a plane trip home from an ABA conference), I read the book--What You Need to Know About Motivation and Teaching Games by Steven Ward, MA, BCBA. I literally started recommending the book right away to the person sitting next to me and have recommended it to dozens of people in the past few weeks.
As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and mother of a 12-year-old son with autism, I found this book to be a very useful guide to help parents and professionals learn how to most effectively teach children with autism to play games. The step-by-step breakdown of how to teach 12 common games is excellent and the data... More >
"What You Need to Know about Motivation and Teaching Games" is a great book for anyone involved in the lives of children with autism. Ward takes what could be just another technical guide and makes it entertaining with his trademark humor and unique insights.
As a behavior therapist, it has been invaluable to my work. Ward helps you figure out how to get kids interested in playing games, and as anyone who works with individuals with developmental disabilities knows, this is essential. I have used this book with every child that I work with. It is easy to teach the games to children at almost every developmental level. The games can be taught in their basic form for early... More >
As a behavior therapist, it has been invaluable to my work. Ward helps you figure out how to get kids interested in playing games, and as anyone who works with individuals with developmental disabilities knows, this is essential. I have used this book with every child that I work with. It is easy to teach the games to children at almost every developmental level. The games can be taught in their basic form for early... More >
"Great book!"
Creative and insightful ways to play these games! Terrificly written in a way both behavior analysts and parents/teachers can appreciate. Without Steve's clever approach, we could not have shown our daughter how to enjoy some of these classic games. His humor is also quite funny!
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