Empowering Underachievers

Empowering Underachievers
Author: Peter Alexander Spevak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780882822822

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

Listening to Able Underachievers

Listening to Able Underachievers
Author: Michael Pomerantz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136636994

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 Underachievers

Empowering Underachievers
Author: Peter Alexander Spevak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780882821955

Kids who are failing at school constantly use excuses and share three traits: no persistence to completion, lack of independent functioning, and inability to work within time limits. Parents and teachers often try tutoring, force or logic to try to get these underachievers to perform at a higher level. Most of the time they fail. Now, noted psychologist Dr. Peter A. Spevak, reveals his dynamic method and gives important tips for parents and teachers. He has motivated over 2000 failing students to perform at or near their full potential.

Empowering Novice Academics for Student Success

Empowering Novice Academics for Student Success
Author: Dr Johann Hugo
Publisher: African Sun Media
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2021-04-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1928314872

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
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2000-10-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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'.

I Can Read You Like A Book

I Can Read You Like A Book
Author: Gregory Hartley
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007-03-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1601638337

Are you in business, journalism, law enforcement, or medicine? Do you face students in a classroom or criminals in a courtroom? Are you in a relationship or looking for one? Do you have children? Then you need the skills to read them like a book! I Can Read You Like a Book features a system for scanning and interpreting anyone's body language, enabling you to figure out what they are really saying or feeling: Review: Check out someone quickly, from head to toe. Evaluate: Know what to look for; notice what's relevant. Analyze: Spot voluntary versus involuntary movements; factor in gender, context, culture. Decide: Draw your conclusion. Step by step, you will develop the same skills the best interrogators and detectives use to assess spies, criminals, and witnesses. As part of the process, you will observe some of the most famous people in the world through interrogator Greg Hartley's eyes. You'll discover what emotions these politicians, pundits, and stars are leaking through their body language and facial expressions, and what their answers (or non-answers) are really saying. I Can Read You Like a Book gives you the fastest, most efficient method to read body language. In any kind of face-to-face competition, first encounters or daily encounters, and even watching the news, you will spot the messages and emotions that people are really sending—whether they know it or not. As a bonus, you will learn how to use your own face and body to your advantage, whether you're trying to evade a difficult question, handle a sensitive situation, or just playing poker!

Get People to Do What You Want

Get People to Do What You Want
Author: Gregory Hartley
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1564149935

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

How to Spot a Liar

How to Spot a Liar
Author: Gregory Hartley
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-07-22
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1601635958

From a US Army interrogator, expert advice on how to ask questions, assess body language and facial expressions, to extract the truth from anyone. Have you ever been lied to? Of course you have, whether you knew it or not. Ever caught a spouse, business partner, parent, boss, or child brazenly lying right to your face? What if you could tell someone was lying, just by listening to them, and observing their action and behavior? How to Spot a Liar is the first book that gives you the tools to figure out what’s really going on: to gain the upper hand in salary negotiation, move a prospective client toward the outcome you desire, and find out why you need to end a business or personal relationship. Who needs How to Spot a Liar? Anyone with a cheating spouse or manipulative boss. Anyone conducting job interviews or cold-calling prospective customers. Lawyers who need to “read” witnesses or jurors. Anyone trying to survive the dating scene or faced with a string of business meetings with clients. Anyone who has teenagers at home or works on Capitol Hill. Anyone whose success and happiness depends on clear interaction with others. And anyone who wants to become just a bit more inscrutable, in business, life . . . even at the poker table!

Empowering Formal and Informal Leadership While Maintaining Teacher Identity

Empowering Formal and Informal Leadership While Maintaining Teacher Identity
Author: Zugelder, Bryan S.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2021-05-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799865029

Teacher leadership remains at the forefront of conversations in teacher education, with discussions on recruitment, retention, and effectiveness. Teachers are at the core of schooling, and the roles they assume and types of leadership they engage in are multi-dimensional. Teacher leadership comes in many shapes and definitions. In this sense, both opportunities and challenges exist in teacher leadership. While national competencies continue to define dispositional and knowledge base for teacher leaders, there is still work to be done to define and add to the body of scholarship on this topic. Teacher leadership opportunities provide development for teachers as a key retention strategy; however, role ambiguity presents challenges in how to empower teachers for formal and informal roles of leadership while maintaining the teacher identity. Empowering Formal and Informal Leadership While Maintaining Teacher Identity provides a comprehensive look at the opportunities and challenges of teacher leadership, drawing on research and practice that add to the body of knowledge for teacher leadership, which is a niche in education that differs from educational administration. Highlighted topics within this book include models for teacher leadership, teacher education, types of leadership roles, the development and retention of teacher leaders, and leadership across different types of school districts. This book is ideally designed for inservice and preservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in teacher leadership roles and the way in which teacher identity is maintained in relation to these other leadership positions.