The Last Chance School Success Guide

by Ruth Herman Wells

This book is filled with interventions to turnaround students who are failing in school due to behavior, attitude or motivation problems. Geared to turnaround the drop-out, alternative ed student, special ed student or truant, these interventions are also targeted to assist students who are just beginning to have serious problems succeeding in school. The book has 20 lessons and many of the lessons have surprising handouts, and this book includes the popular "A Student's Guide to the Care and Heeding of Teachers," an unusual gimmick to reverse very negative attitudes towards school and teachers. Lessons Even You Can Get Along with Teachers," "The Tassel is Worth the Hassle," and "Ready or Not, Here Life Comes." This book is designed for use by youth professionals and parents to convince even the most negative, sour and discouraged student that they can't make it without a complete education. A special emphasis is offered on interacting properly with teachers and administrators, and students can learn how to stay out of trouble. These lessons are perfect for use in classes, counseling groups, in detention, in homerooms, during block periods, and at home. Handouts "Who is the Problem Here?," "Just Who is Responsible for These Results?," "The Ballad of Lance Chance Lance," and "If You Don't Get the Tassel, Could This Future Be a Hassel?" Designed to work when more conventional interventions fail, this book provides every defiant, misbehaved, oppositional, difficult and hard-to-manage student with the specific behaviors, skills, and attitudes they need in order to succeed. Because the interventions are designed to turn the light on over the students' head rather than to overtly alter opinions and attitudes, these lessons often succeed conventional approaches fail. These interventions offer new tools to use with the student that has exhausted "all" other options and can provide new hope for youth who seem destined to fail in school.

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995