At Risk Students: Feeling Their Pain, Understanding Their Plight, Accepting Their Defensive Ploys (2nd Edition) - Softcover

Bill Page

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977386309 ISBN 13: 9780977386307

Publisher: RLD Publications, Inc., 2009

Synopsis

Tested strategies for motivating and teaching at-risk students. For practical use by classroom teachers within the classroom. Now in an expanded new edition, this popular book will help classroom teachers engage, motivate and teach problem students in the regular classroom setting. It is a practical guide prepared specifically for classroom teachers. The presentation is in jargon-free plain talk. The author is a veteran classroom teacher and teacher-trainer with decades of experience in working with at-risk students. The strategies have been developed and tested by extensive classroom use, and can be immediately implemented by teachers without involvement of special programs and specialists.

About this title

About the Author

Bill Page brings to this new book his more than thirty years of experience as a classroom teacher, teacher-trainer, demonstration teacher, and program director specializing in at-risk education. He is the originator and director of Project Enable, a six-year project of the Central Midwestern Regional Educational Laboratory (CEMREL) funded by the U.S. Office of Education. For twenty-six consecutive summers he taught methods courses at the University of California at Riverside, San Diego, Irvine, Santa Barbara, and Davis. He has conducted seminars and workshops at more than 2,000 schools and districts, and has made conference presentations attended by more than 100,000 teachers and administrators.

Edition details

• Publisher: RLD Publications, Inc.
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977386309
• ISBN 13: 9780977386307
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 280