Here's a book that explains how proven coaching strategies can help you inspire students and boost their performance in any subject and grade level. Discover why a coaching environment creates more student motivation and higher engagement, and learn the strategies and techniques that winning coaches use to help groups and individuals work more…

Expanded learning opportunities (ELOs), which include afterschool, summer learning, and extended day and extended year programs, can help states reduce dropout rates and increase graduation rates. Effective elementary, middle, and high school ELOs support academic rigor, boost student engagement, and provide students with supportive relationships.…

The paper discusses issues in the education of learning disabled (LD) secondary students. Among problems noted are the lack of fit between characteristics of the disabled learner and characteristics of secondary education and the exacerbating effects of learning disabilities on adolescent concerns. Successful strategies identified in the research…

Describes the structured activities that have been developed at C. R. Anderson Middle School in Helena, Montana, to help adolescents develop a better sense of self-confidence. (MD)

Appropriate regular physical activity produces significant health benefits. Physical education can promote such activity, but for lifetime fitness, people must move to higher-order objectives, such as establishing personal exercise programs. Ways physical educators can motivate students to enjoy a lifetime of fitness are presented. (MT)

The article is designed to help parents and teachers understand the nature and causes of underachievement and to show them how to work more effectively with underachieving gifted students. Guidelines focus on ways to share problem solving. (Author/CL)

This book combines information about resiliency, classroom management, and discipline into a user-friendly discussion suitable for all teachers. The material covers both preventive strategies and reactive strategies. The chapters of part 1, "Reinventive Strategies," are: (1) "Relationship-Driven Classroom Management and Resilience"; (2)…

Tutoring teenagers is as much about building self confidence as teaching skills. This paper states that teenagers who have disengaged from reading probably had difficulty learning to read in the primary grades. According to most research, at this critical age, they missed the pleasure of getting lost in a story or discovering new information in…

This guide describes an instructional technique, Power Card Strategy, that provides a visual aid to assist students with Asperger syndrome and autism in making sense of social situations, routines, the meaning of language, and the hidden curriculum of the classroom. Power Card Strategy makes use of the intense special interests characteristic of…

Reviews the literature concerning the advantages and uses of simulation games as a mode of instruction. Offers guidelines on developing such games for classroom use. Concludes that simulation games can increase student motivation, retention, and development of social skills. (Author/WD)

Describes program model for independent study courses for students of German at Cleveland State University, emphasizing how to keep students motivated without regularly scheduled class and how to reduce the amount of time required to administer the program. Believes courses cannot replace regular courses but can help in situations where enrollment…

Describes "two-point system: which rewards students for having read assigned material before class, but does not penalize those who have not. At the beginning of class, students critique in writing the reading assignment. For each successful critique they receive two points on their next exam. (KC)

Contends that creative nonfiction is about voice. Notes that creative nonfiction teaches students the power of voice and how to modulate it. Concludes that motivation is higher to tell one's own stories than to write a lab report, analytical essay, or term paper. (PM)

The importance of motivation in the use of Fernald Techniques is discussed and applied to reading instruction for students with learning problems. Fernald methods begin with a multisensory approach and move through four steps to independent learning. Success depends on students' motivational readiness for instruction and motivation during and…

Describes an approach for motivating at-risk students to use available peer-tutoring services. Reports that students feel more comfortable about the peer-tutoring service when tutors (rather than the teacher) give brief in-class presentations in which they describe the services offered. (RS)