Student apathy

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Practical strategies for getting students re-engaged that you can use in your classroom at any time.

Are you tired of dealing with student apathy? Room 213 has lots of strategies to get your students engaged in the learning process.

The distractions of cellphones compound a general lack of interest in learning, a new national survey of teachers shows.

Difficult students are a potential problem for every faculty member. This is why it’s important to learn ways to deal with inappropriate or disruptive student behavior. In an email interview with The Teaching Professor, Brian Van Brunt, director of the Counseling and Testing at Western Kentucky University, and Perry Francis, professor of counseling at Eastern Michigan University, addressed some of the key issues involving these types of students.

It's no secret that student apathy feels like it is at an all-time high. Why is it happening and how to we fix it?

Guest blogger Lori Desautels looks at senioritis as a time of wasted opportunity and asks pointed questions about how we can engage rather than lose students during the final months of their high school careers.

“It’s them not me.” “Kids today don’t care.” “I’m not their tour guide, I’m their teacher.” There are so many things wrong with the above statements that it would be a whole other post to explain i…

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I know you feel it. Kids are just not as easy to engage these days. We can blame it on a lot of things, but that just won't get us anywhere other than worked up and discouraged, right? Instead, what can we do about it? How can we do something about the rampant apathy we see in our classrooms? In this blog post, Room 213 shares tips and strategies for getting your students actively engaged in your lessons and activities. #middleschoolela #ela #highschoolenglish #engagingstudents

Plus example after-school routines for kids of all agesPlanning out and following an after-school routine can help you and your family reduce stress, increase structure, and create a happier and more productive household. In this...

A student did not dream as a younger child about someday being apathetic.No human wants to be unmotivated and apathetic. #DaveStuartJr

Martina Cahill | Middle School ELA resources + ideas on Instagram: "Even though I was a pretty good student as a kid, I wanted to socialize and then do my work at home 🤣💀. You also couldn’t give me “work” time in class or I would have been across the room talking to my bff so fast. But also, as a teacher, I slowly learned now to eliminate this problem of “free time” without just giving kids just work all class period… and I never just told my students “Okay use your class time to work.”…

One of the signs of over stress is apathy. When people tend to get overwhelmed they often shut down and have that I don't care attitude about them. Strassman, H. D., Thaler, M. B., & Schein, E. H. (2006, April 1). A PRISONER OF WAR SYNDROME: APATHY AS A REACTION TO SEVERE STRESS. Retrieved from https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.112.12.998

More than three quarters of students and graduates with a disability feel they will be discriminated against by employers, survey shows http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/mar/13/students-afraid-to-disclose-disabilities-to-potential-employers

Student apathy is an issue schools are noticing across the board post-pandemic. See what this TikTok teacher has to say about it.

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Scott Ervin - aka "The Kid Whisperer" - shares strategies to help curb the 3 big behavior issues: student apathy, disrespect, and arguing.