Why Students Underachieve: What Educators and Parents Can Do about It

Regalena Melrose

doi:10.5771/9781610485081

Summary

Here is a timely response to the research findings of the last decade. Why Students Underachieve: What Educators and Parents Can Do about It focuses on the need to understand how prevalent trauma is in the lives of our students and how it impacts the brain, subsequent learning, and behavior. This book also details what educators can do not only to prevent further harm to our students, but also to intervene in ways that give them a promising future. Why Students Underachieve: _

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2006
Copyright Year: 2006
ISBN-Print: 978-1-57886-439-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61048-508-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 234
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1 Barriers to Learning No access
2. 2 Traumatized and Misunderstood No access
3. 3 Filling in the Gaps No access
1. 4 Trauma No access
2. 5 Trauma and the Brain No access
1. 6 "Resourcing" (a Verb): What Schools Can Do to Intervene Effectively with Traumatized Students No access
2. 7 Tools for Tolerance No access
3. 8 Understanding and Intervening with Emotionally Disturbed Students No access
4. 9 Self-Regulation Therapy No access
1. 10 Crisis Intervention: A Critique No access
2. 11 First, Do No Harm: Psychophysiological First Aid No access
3. 12 Final Words: Implications for the Future of Education No access
Appendix A: IDEA Categories No access Pages 221 - 222
Appendix B: Resources No access Pages 223 - 224
References No access Pages 225 - 232
About the Author No access Pages 233 - 234