Student Apathy

Author : Jeff C. Marshall
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781578868872

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Overcoming Student Apathy by Jeff C. Marshall Pdf

Overcoming Student Apathy: Motivating Students for Academic Success provides a candid look into the hearts and minds of many of today's struggling students. Frustrated teachers and administrators typically stop at labeling the symptoms shown by these students: apathy, low motivation, laziness. Overcoming Student Apathy clarifies the situation, while proposing tips to rise to the challenge. Apathy plagues many of today's middle and high school classrooms, and the problem will not spontaneously disappear. Teachers must be willing to move beyond the 'they don't care' attitude to discover how we can eradicate this nemesis to learning. Overcoming Student Apathy guides the reader toward success with the disenfranchised, the downtrodden, the devalued, and the demoralized. Eight archetypes are used in narrative form to represent the various forms that apathy assumes in our classrooms (e.g., The Rebel, The Downtrodden, The Invisible). Teachers will identify with both the students and the teachers portrayed in the book; thus, transferring understanding and applications back to their own classrooms.

Author : James P. Raffini
Publisher : NEA Professional Library
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032410677

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Student Apathy by James P. Raffini Pdf

Some educational practices have contributed to the apathy of students. These include a perceptual view of behavior, the view that self-worth equals achievement, norm-referenced evaluation, and success as ability and effort. Four strategies which have the potential for allowing students to experience success from reasonable levels of effort include: (1) individual goal-setting structures that allow students to define their own criteria for success; (2) outcome-based instruction and evaluation which make it possible for slower students to experience success without having to compete with faster students; (3) attribution retraining which can help apathetic students view failure as a lack of effort rather than a lack of ability; and (4) cooperative learning activities which help students realize that personal effort can contribute to group as well as individual goals. Educators must confront the discrepancies between the actual and stated goals of education. Students have the power to choose how much effort to expend on any task. If the goal is to differentiate students according to their ability, then slower students will choose to reject school by avoiding effort. For those students who are forced to choose between rejecting schooling or rejecting their sense of self-worth, time is short. (ABL)

Author : Jal Mehta,Sarah Fine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674988392

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In Search of Deeper Learning by Jal Mehta,Sarah Fine Pdf

"The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read."--Jay Mathews, Washington Post An award-winning professor and an accomplished educator take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of America's most innovative classrooms to show what is working--and what isn't--in our schools. What would it take to transform industrial-era schools into modern organizations capable of supporting deep learning for all? Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine's quest to answer this question took them inside some of America's most innovative schools and classrooms--places where educators are rethinking both what and how students should learn. The story they tell is alternately discouraging and hopeful. Drawing on hundreds of hours of observations and interviews at thirty different schools, Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule. And yet they find pockets of powerful learning at almost every school, often in electives and extracurriculars as well as in a few mold-breaking academic courses. These spaces achieve depth, the authors argue, because they emphasize purpose and choice, cultivate community, and draw on powerful traditions of apprenticeship. These outliers suggest that it is difficult but possible for schools and classrooms to achieve the integrations that support deep learning: rigor with joy, precision with play, mastery with identity and creativity. This boldly humanistic book offers a rich account of what education can be. The first panoramic study of American public high schools since the 1980s, In Search of Deeper Learning lays out a new vision for American education--one that will set the agenda for schools of the future.

Author : Sylvia Nissen
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781988533919

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Student Political Action in New Zealand by Sylvia Nissen Pdf

It was not long ago that students were dismissed as apathetic. Yet, today, a new generation of young political actors is making waves in New Zealand and around the world. What explains this apparent shift and what is driving these new forms of youth­ful political engagement and expression? Exploring the terrain between activism and apathy, Sylvia Nissen considers what it means to be a political actor from the perspective of students today. Drawing on in­-depth interviews with New Zealand tertiary students, she traces their ‘desires’ for different types of politics, the ‘demands’ they experience at university, and the ‘doubts’ that underscore their political engagement.

Author : T. J. Sullivan
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781604946901

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Motivating the Middle by T. J. Sullivan Pdf

If you lead a student organization and you're frustrated that you and a few others do all the work, you need to motivate a specific set of overlooked members. It's the concept that will set student leaders free. Stop focusing on those who check out or cause problems, and start focusing on those "middle third members" who hate drama, care for your organization, and prefer to play a supporting role. Directing your efforts toward the middle -- and understanding what they can contribute -- may solve your most pressing leadership challenges. Motivating the Middle offers a simple, empowering strategy for student government officers, team captains, chapter presidents, club leaders, residence life staff, and other college students looking to make a difference on today's campuses. About the Author T.J. Sullivan is the cofounder and CEO of CAMPUSPEAK. Since 1992, T.J. Sullivan has spoken professionally to millions of college students, empowering them to take nontraditional approaches to advanc-ing their organizations. Visit his blog at www.tjsullivan.com.

Author : Jeff C. Marshall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475806625

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Overcoming Student Apathy by Jeff C. Marshall Pdf

Overcoming Student Apathy: Succeeding with All Learners provides a candid look into the hearts and minds of many of today’s struggling learners. Frustrated teachers and administrators typically stop at labeling the symptoms shown by these students: apathetic, unmotivated, lazy. Overcoming Student Apathy clarifies the issues, while proposing solutions to move forward with each student. The second edition has added three additional chapters that focus on critical issues surrounding today’s learners: a look at keystone habits that influence student behavior, addressing standards that frame learning and technologies that can accent learning, and creating highly engaged learning environments to achieve success with all. Undoubtedly apathy currently plagues many of our middle and high school classrooms. This book starts the conversation on how to move beyond “they just don’t care” by focusing on solutions that help to eradicate this nemesis to learning.

Author : Dr Kristi Holsinger
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781409495123

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Teaching Justice by Dr Kristi Holsinger Pdf

Teaching Justice explores the role that teaching and learning in higher education can play in solving problems of social injustice. Examining a range of approaches to education, it considers the challenges that exist in teaching about justice, drawing on extensive empirical data gathered amongst college lecturers and professors, as well as the author's own experience. With an analysis of the strategies commonly used this book will shed light on the manner in which students can be engaged in activism and concerned with issues of social injustice. By overcoming apathy and engaging students with social problems, education can thus address matters of injustice and begin to effect change. Presenting extensive international research and insightful analyses, Teaching Justice reveals the classroom and the lecture theatre to be important sites in the pursuit of social justice and will appeal to teachers and researchers with interests in social problems, education and educational methods, and criminal justice, as well as community engagement and service learning outside the classroom.

Author : Jerome J. Schultz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118091739

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Nowhere to Hide by Jerome J. Schultz Pdf

A new approach to help kids with ADHD and LD succeed in and outside the classroom This groundbreaking book addresses the consequences of the unabated stress associated with Learning disabilities and ADHD and the toxic, deleterious impact of this stress on kids' academic learning, social skills, behavior, and efficient brain functioning. Schultz draws upon three decades of work as a neuropsychologist, teacher educator, and school consultant to address this gap. This book can help change the way parents and teachers think about why kids with LD and ADHD find school and homework so toxic. It will also offer an abundant supply of practical, understandable strategies that have been shown to reduce stress at school and at home. Offers a new way to look at why kids with ADHD/LD struggle at school Provides effective strategies to reduce stress in kids with ADHD and LD Includes helpful rating scales, checklists, and printable charts to use at school and home This important resource is written by a faculty member of Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry and former classroom teacher.

Author : Edgar Liao,Cheng Tju Lim,Guo Quan Seng
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789089644091

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The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya by Edgar Liao,Cheng Tju Lim,Guo Quan Seng Pdf

"The book, using a small group of left-wing student activists as a prism, explores the complex politics that underpinned the making of nation-states in Singapore and Malaysia after World War Two. While most works have viewed the period in terms of political contestation groups, the book demonstrates how it is better understood as involving a shared modernist project framed by British-planned decolonization. This pursuit of nationalist modernity was characterized by an optimism to replace the colonial system with a new state and mobilize the people into a new relationship with the state, according them new responsibilities as well as new rights. This book, based on student writings, official documents and oral history interviews, brings to life various modernist strands - liberal-democratic, ethnic-communal, and Fabian and Marxist socialist - seeking to determine the form of post-colonial Malaya. It uncovers a hitherto little-seen world where the meanings of loud slogans were fluid, vague and deeply contested. This world also comprised as much convergence between the groups as conflict, including collaboration between the Socialist Club and other political and student groups which were once its rivals, while its main ally eventually became its nemesis"--Publisher's description.

Author : H. Remschmidt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783662215951

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Books of Abstracts of the 16th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) by H. Remschmidt Pdf

This book contains all of the abstracts of the 16th World Congress of the Interna tional Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IA CAPAP) held in Berlin, Aug 22-26, 2004. The abstracts are arranged according to the type of session (main lecture, state of the art lecture, symposium, workshop, course, or poster exhibition) and the day of the conference. The abstracts of the industry-sponsored sessions are also in cluded. A subject index is provided to help track themes of special interest. The author index allows you to find the abstract authors and the address of the first author for direct contact. The general theme of the congress "Facilitating Pathways: Care, Treatment and Prevention in Child and Adolescent Mental Health" is quite inclusive and the contri butions to the Congress, as reflected in the abstracts, cover the whole range of child and adolescent mental health endeavour, including all modern methods and trends in research and clinical application. The ways we understand and treat our patients are changing rapidly, and this too is reflected in the contributions to this volume, which give state-of-the-art information that should allow us to provide better care, treatment and prevention to children, adolescents and their care-givers everywhere in the world.

Author : Klaus Boehm,Nick Wellings
Publisher : Springer
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1979-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781349161508

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The Student Book 1979–80 by Klaus Boehm,Nick Wellings Pdf

Author : Dave Stuart Jr.
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506391021

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These 6 Things by Dave Stuart Jr. Pdf

Dave Stuart Jr.’s work is centered on a simple belief: all students and teachers can flourish. These 6 Things is all about streamlining your practice so that you’re teaching smarter, not harder, and kids are learning, doing, and flourishing in ELA and content-area classrooms. In this essential resource, teachers will receive: Proven, classroom-tested advice delivered in an approachable, teacher-to-teacher style that builds confidence Practical strategies for streamlining instruction in order to focus on key beliefs and literacy-building activities Solutions and suggestions for the most common teacher and student “hang-ups” Numerous recommendations for deeper reading on key topics

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : School principals
ISBN : PURD:32754081154589

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Schools and Staffing in the United States, a Statistical Profile by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Readjustment, Education, and Employment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1432 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Veterans
ISBN : UCBK:C051769642

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Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Readjustment, Education, and Employment Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Readjustment, Education, and Employment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Veterans
ISBN : UOM:39015078681387

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Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Readjustment, Education, and Employment Pdf