self-culture

Present instructional strategies and ideas to help students learn to manage and self-regulate their learning.

Provides educators with step-by-step instructions for implementing student-directed learning in their classrooms.

Presents self-regulation tools for educators to ensure emotional wellness in the classroom, including strategies for detecting and supporting anxiety and depression.

"To succeed in school, students need more than subject area knowledge--they must learn how to learn. [This book] describes the ways that students focus attention on achieving success. Self-regulated learners find personal value in learning, develop effective study habits, welcome challenges, seek help, and use failure as a learning tool. This ... guide makes the process of developing self-regulation ... easy."--Provided by publisher.

Provides strategies for improving the classroom environment to help students become more independent learners.

Examines African-American education and literacy during and after the Civil War, and traces the ways in which slaves learned to read and write and became teachers to other former slaves after the war.

Through the use of goal setting, recovery, and praising, the authors show that teachers can make a lasting contribution to their student's lives, while at the same time, they themselves gain new vigor and fulfillment in their profession.

Describes the accomplishments of eleven teenagers who are self-taught or home schooled and presents a case for home schooling.