Overcoming Student Apathy: Motivating Students for Academic Success

Overcoming Student Apathy guides the reader toward success with the disenfranchised, the downtrodden, the devalued, and the demoralized. Eight archetypes are used in narrative form to represent the various forms that apathy assumes in our classrooms (e.g., The Rebel, The Downtrodden, The Invisible). Teachers will identify with both the students and the teachers portrayed in the book; thus, transferring understanding and applications back to their own classrooms.


About the Author
Jeff C. Marshall has received National Board Teaching Ceritification and is assistant professor in the School of Education at Clemson University, SC.