Under-Resourced Learners: 8 Strategies to Boost Student Achievement

by Ruby K. Payne

Under-Resourced Learners identifies resources all students need and delivers proven practical strategies for building up these resources for every student in every school. Teachers and administrators will find a gold mine of best practices and interventions to help embed those success strategies in their curricula, and in the minds and lives of their students. You'll discover new ways ~Assess student resources to determine the best strategies and interventions ~Build mental, language, relationship, and other resources into your teaching ~Work more effectively with parents and community representatives ~Increase support systems for all students and their families ~Monitor every student s progress and adjust efforts to increase student performance

Genres: Education, Teaching, Nonfiction

208 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published January 28, 2007

About the author

Ruby K. Payne is an American educator and author best known for her book A Framework for Understanding Poverty and her work on the culture of poverty and its relation to education. Payne received an undergraduate degree from Goshen College in 1972. She holds a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy studies from Loyola University in Illinois, and is the founder of aha! Process, Inc., a company that informs schools, companies and other organizations about poverty.

Reviews

[Genevieve · Rating 4 out of 5]

The real-life examples were really helpful in understanding parents/community/school relationships. I think I will reference this book often!

[Denise · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you've read "A Framework for Understanding Poverty", this book has the ideas to actually help students.

[Terri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Payne knows her stuff. She's done thorough research into the effects of poverty, both situational and generational, that were set forth in her first work, A Framework for Understanding Poverty. She brings those insights into bear along with new studies to propose strategies to help educators close the achievement gap for students of poverty. Very highly recommended, but read Framework first!

[Laura]

As this was for a school-related book study, reading will be discontinued until August. I will say that I enjoyed the real life stories and examples. Those are always the most interesting and touching!

[Emily]

Part of book study among our staff. Good enough so far!

[Sarah]

Great book-read as textbook for Multicultural Diversity class!

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read as a book study for school. The majority of the book was good, however some of the chapters were long.

[Julie Euber]

NPFY