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Breaking the Learning Barrier for Underachieving Students
Practical Teaching Strategies for Dramatic Results
Make a breakthrough with underachieving and at-risk students!
This insightful text provides a strong theoretical understanding of at-risk or "dramatic" learners and explains how the traditional classroom environment fails to meet their educational needs. Offering innovative yet practical teaching strategies, disciplinary policies, and lesson plans designed to engage even the most reluctant learners, Nelson demonstrates the importance of the principles that guide his groundbreaking work with at-risk students:
- Learning requires active involvement, participation, and effort from the learner
- Learners need dramatic elements to gain meaning and inspiration
- Teachers must consider the values and preferences of the learner
- Learning must be fun
Product Details
- Grade Level: PreK-12
- ISBN: 9781412914857
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2005
- Page Count: 280
- Publication date: November 04, 2005
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