Clock Watchers
By Stevi Quate and John McDermott
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-325-02169-0
For Stevi Quate and John McDermott, this was the missing piece of their teaching: How can I motivate my students and then create a context that will engage them? Clock Watchers is their powerful answer a plan that gets kids to care about learning and truly engage with the curriculum.

Clock Watchers is not a book of tips and tricks. Instead it applies the research on motivation and engagement to support increased achievement and improved attitudes about school. Quate and McDermott's six-step framework:
-catches students interest across the content areas
-holds it through meaningful learning and valuable interactions
-uses assessment to create further opportunities to connect kids with content
-sustains it all with ideas for projects, activities, and even classroom routines and rituals.