If You Don't Feed the Students, They Starve: Improving Attitude and Achievement Through Positive Relationships - Paperback

by Neila A. Connors (Author)

Award-winning teacher Neila A. Connors shares her secrets for creating positive classroom relationships

From the author of the best-selling If You Don't Feed the Teachers, They Eat the Students, comes an innovative resource for all who work with pre-K through 12th grade students. Neila Connors presents a wealth of strategies and techniques to help teachers develop, maintain, and sustain positive student relationships. If You Don't Feed the Students offers practical, commonsense methods for improving classroom performance, served up in an engaging and entertaining manner.

• Unique, classroom tested strategies for validating all students to help them succeed in the classroom
• Proven approaches that will benefit teachers, student teachers, and school administrators alike

In this fun, must-have resource, Connors reveals how empowering students creates a climate of care and compassion and improves everyone's attitudes and achievement.

Back Jacket

"In my 40 years in education, never has a book been so critical. This book reinforces our why and shows us how we can transform schools through humor and knowledge. Every staff member will find renewal and discovery through this extraordinary collection of strategies." --Martinrex Kedziora, Ed.D., Superintendent, Moreno Valley Unified School District

The must-have guide for creating positive classroom relationships that enhance learning

Students and teachers are overwhelmed with high-stakes testing and endless rounds of assessments. What's more, our outmoded teaching methods are not meeting the needs of today's information-at-their-fingertips learners. With If You Don't F.E.E.D. the Students, They S.T.A.R.V.E., bestselling author Neila A. Connors has written a guide that keeps our sights on what is most important in the classroom: relationships, relevance, recognition, and connections. Students need to be Fueled, Engaged, and Empowered Daily or they will Stop Trying And Reject Valuable Education.

Written for teachers of pre-K to 12^th-grade students, this vital guide puts the emphasis on repetition as the key to enhancing students' ability to learn. Additionally, the author offers activities and suggestions that can be introduced into any curriculum right away.

If You Don't F.E.E.D. the Students, They S.T.A.R.V.E. is a much-needed collection of unique, classroom-tested strategies that validate students and supports them on their journey to becoming passionate learners. The book's proven techniques are designed to create a classroom climate of compassion that not only empowers students but benefits teachers and administrators as well.

Author Biography

NEILA A. CONNORS is a former elementary teacher, a middle level teacher and administrator, and a high school advanced placement coordinator. Presently, Connors teaches middle and high school students at Scholars Academy in Thomasville, Georgia. She has also been a middle grades consultant in the Florida Department of Education and a tenured professor in the Department of Secondary Education at Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia. Her bestselling book, If You Don't Feed the Teachers, They Eat the Students has sold over 500,000 copies.