• Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind: Practical Strategies for Raising Achievement, Aug/2013

Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind: Practical Strategies for Raising Achievement, Aug/2013

Author(s) Eric P Jensen
ISBN10 1416615725
ISBN13 9781416615729
Format Paperback
Pages 200
Year Publish 2013 August

Synopsis

ASCD best-seller Teaching with Poverty in Mind established the standard for what educators everywhere can do to improve the achievement of economically disadvantaged students. Now author Eric Jensen follows-up with this guide to student engagement strategies that are strongly tied to socioeconomic status. Learn the seven factors that are crucial to engaging disadvantaged students: health and nutrition, vocabulary, effort and energy, mind-set, cognitive capacity, relationships, and stress level. To address those factors, Jensen provides actions and solutions you can use in every day practice to

  • Cultivate a high-energy and positive classroom climate that fosters success every day.
  • Build your students' capacity to focus their attention, think critically, process content, and recall it from memory.
  • Create greater excitement that spurs student motivation and effort.
  • Develop students' deep, sustained understanding of content.


  • The strategies in this book will empower you to automate student engagement efforts in your classroom and school so more struggling students succeed.