Up from Underachievement: How Teachers, Students, and Parents Can Work Together to Promote Student Success [Paperback]

Diane Heacox (Author), Pamela Espeland (Editor)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing (September 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0915793350
• ISBN-13: 978-0915793358
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Diane Heacox, Ed. D., is an Assistant Professor of Education at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, where teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. Previously she was a K-12 instructional specialist and classroom teacher.

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great techniques for intrinsic motivation!, July 7, 2000

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This review is from: Up from Underachievement: How Teachers, Students, and Parents Can Work Together to Promote Student Success (Paperback)

This is a useful book for teachers, students and their parents. I used this as the text for a high school "Success Seminar" for students struggling to attain their best grades. The techniques used in this book allow students to look closely at what they do and why they do it in regards to their present learning strategies. Then the author provides suggestions to change poor strategies into successful ones. My students benefitted from the emphasis on intrinsic motivation. The committment to action, goal setting for future success, is a very appropriate culmination of the lessons. The author is correct to involve all the student's teachers as well as his/her parents. Developing genuine motivation in a student who is performing at a mediocre level needs a focused approach with definite strategies since bad habits need to be broken and a new mind-set needs to be learned.