Proven Strategies for Improving Learning & Achievement [microform] / Duane Brown
- Bib ID:
- 5627091
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Brown, Duane
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED430179
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- Description:
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- Greensboro, NC : ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services, 1999
- 309 p.
- ISBN:
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- 9781561090860
- 1561090867
- Summary:
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The purpose of this book is to give student support personnel tools that: (1) will be recognized by educators as directly related to enhancing academic performance; (2) can be used with confidence that they will have the desired impact on achievement; and (3) are culturally sensitive. Chapters contain detailed presentation of the technology as well as discussion of the technique and its uses. Topics are: (1) "Student Support Personnel, Academic Performance, and Strategic Interventions"; (2) "Improving the Achievement of Racial and Cultural Minorities Using Advocacy, Consultation, and Collaboration"; (3) "Improving Academic Achievement through Cooperative Learning"; (4) "Developing a Positive School Climate: Influencing Student Perceptions and Heightening Teacher Awareness"; (5)"A Study Skills Program;" (6) Improving Test-Taking Skills"; (7) "Time Management: An Essential Habit for Students"; (8) "Behavioral Contracting and Encouragement"; (9) "Techniques for Establishing an Environment That Encourages Academic Success"; (10) "Using Peers and Adult Volunteers as Tutors"; (11) "Achievement Motivation Groups"; (12) "Establishing Homework Support Programs"; (13) "Parenting for Academic Achievement: Promoting Resiliency and Academic Skills"; (14) "Resisting Peer Pressure to Underachieve: A Refusal Skills Group"; (15) "Helping High-Potential Underachieving Students Set Career and Educational Goals Using the Internet"; (16) "Summing Up: Principles and Practices." Appendix I includes information about ERIC and the Internet. Handouts, overheads, and figures are indexed for easy reference. (EMK)
- Notes:
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- Availability: ERIC Counseling and Student Services Clearinghouse, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 201 Ferguson Building, P.O. Box 26171, Greensboro, NC 27402-6171; Tel: 336-334-4114; Tel: 800-414-9769 (Toll Free); Fax: 336-334-4116; E-mail: ericcass@uncg.edu; Web site: http://www.uncg.edu/edu/ericcass ($26.95).
- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: ED-99-CO-0014.
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- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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