Let's focus on more than just on motivation for school. Schools not only neglect to train children to recognize the value of school, even worse, they don't systematically train them to act like students either. Students aren't formally taught School Skills, and they aren't taught motivation. It's a double whammy

It isn't realistic to expect that students magically know the value of school, or how to participate in educational activities and successfully be part of the learning process. They need to be taught nuts-and-bolts skills like motivation, as well as attendance, discussion skills, concentration and how to manage classroom supplies. It may be the most important classroom strategy of all: to teach School Skills, yet most teachers don't formally teach it at all. If you don't teach it, many students will be unable to do it. That's why one of the most important applications of our interventions, teaching tips, teacher tools and tricks, is to be sure that teachers thoroughly train children and youth to be students. This essential teaching practice should be a teaching standard, but sadly, isn't a concept even taught to teachers as part of their training.

Preparing youngsters to be students is an especially key concept for youth with challenges and barriers, such as being an at risk child, unable to achieve school success, having behavior problems, being troubled, violent, having behavior problems, being a juvenile delinquent, in special education, etc. Ironically, there are few things to compensate for this lack of training children to be students: no teacher material, teaching system, teacher trick or tool can compensate for that oversight. For all disciplines-- teachers, mental health workers, foster parents, court workers, etc.-- we recommend pro-actively teaching all the skill areas that youth and children struggle with in your setting. Plus, we recommend that you cover all relevant coping skills and social skills areas. To ensure school success, community success, and life success, here is one practice that should be the standard, regardless of what your job is with children.

Our recorded workshop (shown below) can help. It provides comprehensive training that shows you how to prevent problems before they happen. It doesn't just cover motivation but all coping, school and social skills problems that students can present. It's the practical training you probably didn't get in college. It can transform how you work with students, and turbo-charge the results you achieve.

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