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    When Smart Kids Underachieve in School: Practical Solutions for Teachers
    When Smart Kids Underachieve in School: Practical Solutions for Teachers
    When Smart Kids Underachieve in School: Practical Solutions for Teachers
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    When Smart Kids Underachieve in School: Practical Solutions for Teachers

    By Todd Stanley

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    When Smart Kids Underachieve in School: Practical Solutions for Teachers takes a look at the 10 most common reasons why some smart, advanced, and gifted students do not reach their achievement potential. Reasons for underachievement range from social-emotional needs, lack of proper programming, not being challenged, and potential learning disabilities. Each chapter discusses a different cause and three practical strategies that can be used to overcome it. Useful for teachers, counselors, gifted coordinators, and administrators, this book is an easy-to-read, must-have resource for any educator looking to identify, understand, and reverse underachievement.

    Grades K–12

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateNov 1, 2017
    ISBN9781618217059
    When Smart Kids Underachieve in School: Practical Solutions for Teachers
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    Todd Stanley

    Todd Stanley is the author of 10 teacher education books including "Project-Based Learning for Gifted Students: A Handbook for the 21st-Century Classroom." He was a classroom teacher for 18 years and is currently the gifted services coordinator for Pickerington Local Schools, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

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    • 4/5
      This is written for the practicing teacher and is full of practical advice for keeping smart students engaged and challenged. A few of the illustrations seemed unnecessary--the bull's eye chart where the center is the safety zone and everything outside the immediate circle is seen as challenging or dangerous--that hardly seems worthy of the graphics department. But good suggestions on what else to consult and lots of practical advice.
    • 5/5
      if recognized, the underachieving gifted student will try any classroom teacher's patience. We often realize that there is ability but the question is how to tap into it? This book will help! Divided into three sections, it first explains underachievement, its prevalence, characteristics, and behaviors which should help the educator clearly identify underachievers.The next section identifies the ten most basic reasons for underachievement and gives three strategies for each. In the conclusion, the author reminds educators that we need to care and help gifted underachievers recognize and use their gifts. He uses the example of prominent underachievers and himself to help get the urgency of his point across.Well-researched and well-written, this concise book is a tremendous resource to any professional educator's library.
    • 4/5
      This is a great addition to my professional library as I encounter underachieving students with high IQ.'a and abilities every year. This resource gives both the "Why" and "What Next" when teaching this population of children. Some great solutions and suggestions were provided. I will definitely be using it as a helpful reference!
    • 4/5
      This book was well written and helpful for teachers. It listed ten very reasonable reasons that gifted students are underachievers in school. Gifted students are often swept aside when teachers have many students in their classroom. For this reason it is helpful to know how to help gifted students achieve to their potential.
    • 4/5
      Stanley in this offering created a short only 197 pages, a guide or reference book for educators that gives direction to not only recognize but to assist Gifted Learners with problems they encounter in school. Stanley gives examples in what is termed the ten causes of underachievement and then offers practical solutions for each of the ten. Stanley does this by giving educators examples of ways to stimulate the underachievers that crosses grade levels and allows for educators to adapt these solutions to their own needs. In most cases Stanley also offers several outside or other works by himself as additional reading to further assist the educator in making choices for their own classroom. The reference section for that matter covers seven pages of up to date works that are easy to locate and several by Prufrock Press Inc. the press that published this work. Stanley also starts and ends with profiles of several classic underachievers drawn from modern society and as the reader goes through the work, they get a sense of what went wrong with those examples and Stanley concludes what might have happened if a educator had stepped in and helped those examples to become more than underachievers. The entire work can serve as a desk reference if a educator sees a student who they feel falls under one of the ten causes. This work could be used hand in hand with the DSM V, to assist the educator and or counselor as well as administration and gifted coordinators. At the very least it should be placed in the media center as a reference for every educator in a school. Together with several of the other works that Stanley suggests will serve to increase the awareness of all educators in giving the underachiever a better chance to reach higher.
    • 5/5
      "When Smart Kids Underachieve in School" is an excellent read that I would highly suggest all teachers read. There is a lot of resources on how to deal with learning difficulties for the academically challenged, but not as much for the gifted students. Todd Stanley lays out the reasons students don't give 100% and what that looks like. Whereas most books stop just at the reason and explanations, this one goes further and gives practical tips and examples for teachers to use. Absolutely a great, valuable addition to the classroom!

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