Working Hard, Working Happy: Cultivating a Culture of Effort and Joy in the Classroom

In this new book from Routledge and MiddleWeb, author Rita Platt shows how you can create a joyful classroom community in which students are determined to work hard, be resilient, and never give up. She describes how to help build students’ purpose, mastery, and autonomy, so they take ownership over their work and develop a growth mindset for success.

Topics covered include:

Why joy and effort go hand in hand

How to build a classroom climate of caring and achievement

Why mastery and goal setting are important

How to work with differentiated instruction

How to work with cooperative and collaborative learning

Why parent-teacher connection is vital

How to take your practice of joy and effort beyond the classroom

And much more!

Each chapter includes practical tools, tips, and ideas that you can use immediately to develop these skills in students, so they find more joy and success in the learning process.