Empowering Underachievers

Empowering Underachievers

Author: Peter Alexander Spevak

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 9780882822822

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Updated and revised - Spevak reveals his dynamic method that has helped motivate 2000 failing students to perform at or near their full potential.


Empowering Underachievers New Strategies To Guide Kids (8-18{Rpara} To Personal Excellence

Empowering Underachievers New Strategies To Guide Kids (8-18{Rpara} To Personal Excellence

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Published: 2010

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My child is so bright, why isn't she doing better in school' Does she want to fail' parents ask. Peter A. Spevak, Ph.D., who has brought 2000 students from failure to success and is an often called upon expert on Good Morning America and contributor to Parents Magazine and the New York Times, explains that lack of emotional maturity is often the main problem in dealing with children who suffer from low self-esteem, poor self-confidence and are labeled underachievers. Parents and educators must actively engage underachievers in a transformation to become self-motivated and happy individuals. How can underachievers by motivated' First, you must understand the relationship between emotional maturity and chronological age. Dr. Spevak warns readers about accepting a diagnosis of ADD or ADHP being made too quickly. He focuses on the four emotional developmental stages'distant, passive, dependent, and defiant'explaining and demonstrating through examples how each type needs specific interventions and actions to get unstuck and stop the backsliding that results in failure. He shows the reader how to encourage emotional growth in a child, enabling him or her to become empowered and thus achievers. Spevak skillfully blends theory, explaining the problem, with a practical, doable action plan for solving the problem. - Motivational expert reveals action plan which has helped 2000 underachievers succeed. - New ways to understand and empower failing children. - How to guide an underachiever to personal excellence. About the Authors: Peter A. Spevak, Ph.D., Founder & Director of the Center for Applied Motivation in Washington D.C., has appeared on Good Morning America and Dateline and has been featured in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek and the LA Times. He received his MA and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Maryann Karinch, a communications consultant in San Mateo, CA, and author of Lessons From the Edge, Boot Camp, and Telemedicine, holds an MA degree from Catholic University of America.


Listening to Able Underachievers

Listening to Able Underachievers

Author: Michael Pomerantz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1136636994

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This book provides a new contribution to raising attainment in secondary schools, with specific reference to able underachievers who are currently achieving C grades or less when they could be getting As. Standards are depressed each time a single able underachiever demonstrates a competence that is below his or her real potential. It lowers morale in that the progress of the whole school is reduced proportionately in line with the able pupils who aren't achieving their real potential, and resources are wasted every time these pupils start misbehaving or creating problems in school. This is a new and innovative approach, which is based on discussions with the pupils themselves and incorporates not just the usual basic subjects but also the creative areas of the curriculum and the wider community as a whole. Head teachers, senior managers, teachers and students, indeed all who are interested in raising standards and ensuring that pupils achieve their full potential will find this book to be an excellent resource.


Empowering Novice Academics for Student Success

Empowering Novice Academics for Student Success

Author: Dr Johann Hugo

Publisher: African Sun Media

Published: 2021-04-26

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1928314872

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This book is essential for academics that enter the field of higher education and training, as it focuses on preparing teachers and trainers to respond appropriately to student success challenges. Student success is a burning issue, both globally and locally. While student achievement is determined by a combination of factors, teachers and their teaching practices do matter. Higher education teachers are expected to fulfil different roles at different times, such as planning for curriculum implementation, mentorship and coaching, facilitating learning, resource development, and student assessment. Against this background the primary purpose of Empowering novice academics for student success: Wearing different hats is building the capacity of novice teachers and trainers to play an influential role in increasing student success throughput.


Able Underachievers

Able Underachievers

Author: Diane Montgomery

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2000-10-30

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Since the introduction of mass schooling educationalists have been concerned that large numbers of able children have underfunctioned. This book advocates that the current curriculum needs to be taught differently so as to include all learners and to 'engage their brains' with the curriculum content. Evidence of what is needed and what works with able underachievers, the disaffected and low attainers from a wide range of backgrounds lies in the pedagogy used. It concludes that teaching and learning methods need to be modified to become learning orientated and learner centred rather than subject orientated and teacher centred. Education will then have 'come of age'.


Teach! Change! Empower!

Teach! Change! Empower!

Author: Carl A. Grant

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2009-10-07

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1412976480

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Offers strategies and action plans to challenge the classroom status quo. Encourages educators to provide culturally relevant curriculum and environments for students, caring with a sociopolitical consciousness within a culture of learning, cooperative professional development, and democratic student involvement. From publisher description.


Get People to Do What You Want

Get People to Do What You Want

Author: Gregory Hartley

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1564149935

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Presents ways to use methods of negotiation to gain personal and career benefit.


Empowering Students as Questioners

Empowering Students as Questioners

Author: Jackie Acree Walsh

Publisher: Corwin

Published: 2021-01-20

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1544331789

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Create environments where students ask questions, not just answer them! When students become questioners, learning improves for all. Yet, even though research has repeatedly shown that student questioning increases ownership of learning and narrows opportunity gaps, studies show that students ask less than five percent of the questions in classrooms today. How do you turn this teacher-centric dynamic around? In this book by bestselling author and education expert Jackie Walsh, the author shifts the focus to student-centric learning and how to develop student questioning strategies, including self-questions, academic questions, exploratory questions, and dialogic questions. Other highlights include: • Vignettes of quality questioning in action in various grade-level and content-area classrooms • Examples of how to use questioning to harness the power of formative assessment and create a culture of inquiry • Student questioning models for distance learning By instilling students with the desire and ability to become better questioners, teachers will see more actively engaged students, more collaboration, and an increase in overall student motivation for learning and achievement.


A Voice to Enlighten and Empower

A Voice to Enlighten and Empower

Author: Jerome Teelucksingh

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2015-09-18

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1514406306

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This book is the second volume of academic and informal speeches that were delivered by Jerome Teelucksingh. The speeches include remarks, feature addresses, reviews of books, wedding speeches, and closing comments. The wide range of topics covered in A Voice to Enlighten and Empower include trade unionism, religion, gender relations, conflict resolution, class consciousness, and ethnicity. Excerpts from some of these speeches have been published. This second collection of speeches will be useful to those persons seeking to learn more of historical and current issues.