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1. Jeff C. Marshall

Overcoming Student Apathy

Reaching the unmotivated student has always been a challenge, one that some teachers give up on too quickly because they have too many students, not enough faith in themselves or their students, or they have hit a wall with a few students. Student Apathy: Strategies to Increase Student Motivation and Academic Success is an enormously helpful addition to the literature about reaching those students, not just for new teachers, but for all of us who need to revisit our reasons for teaching and to reconnect with all of our students. The scenarios are real and all teachers will recognize these struggling students represented in this very readable and informative book. We have all had them in class. What Jeff Marshall and his associates have done is to go beyond the usual talk about motivation and given wonderful suggestions-yes, that's what they are-not dictates or superior preachings. As you read the different stories of students with various responses to learning, you will chuckle or shake your head at these too familiar young people. This book offers all of us a sense of hope and rededication to teaching and believing in all of our students, and at the same time gives us more strategies to use to reach them.