Kathleen Cushman

High school students share their views on what teachers can do to motivate students to learn.

Advice for Teachers from High School Students

Fires in the Bathroom

Laura Rogers

As teachers, parents and counsellors cope with the roller-coaster of early adolescence, too few stop to ask students how they feel about these critical years. Here, students from diverse backgrounds offer insights into what it takes to make classrooms more effective and how to forge stronger relationships between young adolescents and adults. Students tackle critical topics such as social, emotional and academic pressure, classroom behaviour and preparing for higher education. Invaluable resource for all teachers.

Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom

A companion to First in the Family: Your High School Years, this next-step guidebook straight from their peers tells first-generation college students how to stay in college and graduate.

Your College Years, Advice about College from First-generation Students

First in the Family

The students of What Kids Can Do

Teens talk to adults about how they develop motivation and mastery Through the voices of students themselves, Fires in the Mind brings a game-changing question to teachers of adolescents: What does it take to get really good at something? Starting with what they already know and do well, teenagers from widely diverse backgrounds join a cutting-edge dialogue with adults about the development of mastery in and out of school. Their insights frame motivation, practice, and academic challenge in a new light that galvanizes more powerful learning for all. To put these students' ideas into practice, the book also includes practical tips for educators. Breaks new ground by bringing youth voices to a timely topic-motivation and mastery Includes worksheets, tips, and discussion guides that help put the book's ideas into practice Author has 18 previous books on adolescent learning and has written for the New York Times Magazine, Educational Leadership, and American Educator From the acclaimed author of Fires in the Bathroom, this is the next-step book that pushes the conversation to next level, as teenagers tackle the pressing challenges of motivation and mastery.

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