academic achievement

Offers strategies for improving achievement among disadvantaged students.

Provides typical situations to demonstrate what works and what doesn't work in the classroom.

Offers advice for successful educational leadership in at-risk schools and includes examples from over fifty schools that illustrate how the leaders at these schools motivated students and raised academic achievement.

Provides 152 suggestions for educators to prevent students from dropping out, and covers student learning, professional growth, family and community involvement, and school safety.

Describes researched-based teaching strategies for effective instruction to increase student achievement in the classroom, explaining how each strategy can be incorporated into individual classrooms, including guidelines to teach specific types of knowledge, and providing sample rubrics and resources on organization, assessment, time management, and related topics.

Presents strategies for teaching boys who struggle in school, covering attitudes about learning, self-confidence, learning skills, and distracting behaviors as a means of self-protection; and provides lesson plans and anecdotes from numerous teachers.

Provides strategies for improving student learning, covering curriculum, planning for instruction, varied assessments, and criterion-based feedback and includes comments from teachers who have successfully used the strategies discussed.

Provides an overview of career opportunities in the twenty-first century in teaching, and discusses education and training.

Expert teacher and trainer Susan Jones offers a reality-based approach to classroom instruction designed to help students in kindergarten through twelfth grade achieve life long success.