Overcoming Student Apathy - Motivating Students for Academic Success (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Education
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2008
First published:	September 2008
Authors:	Jeff C. Marshall
Contributors:	Emily Howell
Dimensions:	218 x 143 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	142
ISBN-13:	978-1-57886-853-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
LSN:	1-57886-853-X
Barcode:	9781578868537

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