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Toshalis, Eric; Nakkula, Michael J. – Jobs For the Future, 2013
This professional development series is designed to accompany and help put into practice the ideas in Eric Toshalis and Michael J. Nakkula's Students at the Center paper, "Motivation, Engagement, and Student Voice," and their chapter, "Prioritizing Motivation and Engagement," in "Anytime, Anywhere: Student-Centered…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Student Empowerment, Student Centered Learning
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Fast, Jonathan – Social Work in Education, 1999
Presents five strategies to help school social workers form groups during school hours. Advantages and disadvantages of each strategy are discussed, as well as how the formation of the group influences the nature of the group work. (Author/GCP)
Descriptors: Group Activities, Group Dynamics, High Schools, School Social Workers
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Withim, Alma – Child Welfare, 1989
Discusses the rigorous testing by students which must be undergone by new social workers at an alternative school for adolescents. Describes one social worker's successful handling of students' distrust of new persons and fear of rejection. (SAK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Disturbances
Sarmiento, Kathleen; And Others – 1981
A Connecticut school's interdisciplinary team approach toward maintaining black handicapped students in the mainstream of a secondary school is described from the point of view of individual team members. The team consists of a social worker, a guidance counselor/psychologist, special education teacher, and reading specialist. The special…
Descriptors: Black Students, Counselor Role, Disabilities, Interdisciplinary Approach