{"product_id":"the-purpose-driven-student-donald-kelley-9781535448185","title":"The Purpose-Driven Student: Improving Low-Income pupils' graduation rates","description":"Introduction The Purpose-Driven Student details my credentials and life events leading me to become a Purpose-Driven Student and later a Purpose-Driven Professor at Arizona State University. When I was a teen, it was common practice for young boys to drop out of school to become coal miners. Our schools taught coal mining as the best place for young men to work. I thought school was a waste of time because coal-miners needed little education. During elementary school, my father became ill with a fatal black lung and could no longer work in a coal mine. He opened a small grocery store, about the size of a two-car garage in the front, with two pool tables in the backroom. Selling groceries earned barely enough income. My younger brother and I suffered as low-income students. We were poor white trash! I am a native of West Virginia, a state known for supporting the coal-mining industry and ignoring educational funding. My school had limited space for youngsters from the fifth through the eighth grades. We attended half-day morning sessions and other pupils used the same classroom during the afternoon. My low-income student status taught me that prejudice is a clear and existing hazard to self-confidence and learning. The Purpose-Driven Student lights the path of student higher performance by: - Helping teachers remove student constraints imposed by poverty - Using positive peer pressure to create an innovative learning culture - Simplifying a course using The Purpose-Driven Student teaching method - Reaching and teaching Low-income pupils - Building up a student centered classroom - Applying detailed plans to increase teaching and learning efficiency - Transferring learning responsibility from the teacher to the student - Attacking the reason public schools have low-income pupils - Confronting the cause of American middle income shrinking to the low-income class - Recognizing that education ensures better-paying jobs with greater chances of holding employment - Advancing the principle that students learn faster and in greater depth through positive peer pressures. The Purpose-Driven-Student presents teachers with needed tools to turn a low-income student for a lifetime of poverty into a successful adult. An energy-filled adult with a vision of the future is unstoppable in reaching a satisfying career destination. That means a lifetime filled with joy-going to work Mondays and sometimes holidays-because they adore what they do for a living. I recognize without any question that I endured a low-income status during my younger years. Nevertheless, in my adult years, I mastered the difficulties my low-income status presented, and achieve each goal set in my teaching vocation. This book details a method to transform hundreds of low-income pupils who have little hope of lifetime achievement, engaged students with a purpose-filled life. Students without a purpose are often content with whatever grades they earn and never reach their full educational potential.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Kelley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1535448180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781535448185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/22\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d","brand":"Donald Kelley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48445326852351,"sku":"9781535448185","price":10.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f049e7b4-7cb1-4631-9cb6-d56b7c87ee7b.jpg?v=1777217941","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-purpose-driven-student-donald-kelley-9781535448185","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}