Turnaround Tools for the Teenage Brain: Helping Underperforming Students Become Lifelong Learners

By Eric Jensen and Carole Snider

Book Overview

Powerful research-based strategies to turn around strugglingadolescent students

The achievement gap is widening and more teens than ever arestruggling in school. The latest research shows not only thatbrains can change, but that teachers and other providers have thepower to boost students' effort, focus, attitude, and even IQs. Inthis book bestselling author Eric Jensen and co-author CaroleSnider offer teacher-friendly strategies to ensure that allstudents graduate, become lifelong learners, and ultimately besuccessful in school and life. Drawing on cutting-edge science, this breakthrough book reveals core tools to increase studenteffort, build attitudes, and improve behaviors.

Practical, teacher-tested, and research-supported strategiesthat will empower educators to make lasting and rapid changesPowerful academic evidence showing that every teacher can makea significant--and lasting--difference in student effort, behavior, attitude, and achievementSpecific tools for making and managing the student'sgoal-seeking process and helping to develop a winner's mindset

From the very first chapter, educators will learn how to helptheir struggling students become excited, lifelong learners. EricJensen is a noted authority on brain-based learning and studentengagement. Carole Snider is an expert in both adolescent successand adult learning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118343050
• ISBN13: 9781118343050
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.1"