Presents strategies on ways to create a classroom environment that will motivate reluctant learners.

An authoritative guide provides an effective ten-step program that will help encourage and motivate underachieving children and promote success, both in school and in life, and reveals the six types of underachievers, from the procrastinator to the con artist. Original. (view table of contents)

A guide to ways of improving study habits with suggestions for writing creative papers, making speeches, and doing research

A guide to ways of improving study habits with suggestions for writing creative papers, making speeches, and doing research (view table of contents)

Drawing from his experiences as an elementary school teacher, the author discusses ways in which today's schools inhibit the child's personality development and learning potentials

Product Description: The authors explore the reasons for a child's failure from a range of disciplines. Topics covered include social influences as well as emotional, physical and psychological factors. Almost all of us underfunction at one time or another, in our health, at home, in school, in our work or in all these and other areas as well...read more

Product Description: Underachievement is approached from a broad, integrated perspective in this insightful look at the talented adolescent who always performs below his or her optimum level of achievement. Professor Griffin examines the psychological, social, and scholastic reasons behind the phenomenon of the distracted and disengaged high school student...read more

Looks at class structure, argues that Christianity fosters the resentment of success, and discusses the impact of this feeling in science, technology, medicine, the arts, and politics

Product Description: This book aims to contribute to the present understanding of the problems, dynamics and characteristics of underachievers of both average and superior intellectual abilities. It provides an effective means of identifying these children in class and offers practical intervention for treatment which has proved successful in improving their behaviour and school achievement...read more