MOTIVATING THE UNMOTIVATED:

Practical Strategies for Teaching the Hard-to-Reach Student

Availabile April 2008

Chick Moorman shares successful techniques for teaching strategies to hard-to-reach students to motivate them to succeed in school. You will learn a wide variety of proven strategies to prevent power struggles, increase self-motivation and help students build positive and productive relationships.

Here's what you'll learn...

• How to develop a classroom environment where students will take risks and yearn to succeed
• Effective ways to promote students’ ability to make decisions and follow through
• Teacher-tested ideas for eliminating negative behaviors
• What to say and what not to say to unmotivated, underachieving students
• How to motivate even your most challenging students who see no purpose to learn
• Proven teaching strategies to reduce power struggles
• How to respond effectively to “I can’t” language and actions
• Help students develop mental models to create integrity, mission and purpose in their lives
• How to effectively deal with the victim stance often assumed by low achieving students
• Strategies for building connectedness and feelings of belonging in your classroom

Nationally Recognized Seminar Leader

Chick Moorman is a veteran educator who has invested more than 40 years working with students and teachers. More than 300,000 participants have attended his seminars. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities on raising responsible, caring, confident children. Using motivational stories and humor, Chick helps participants personalize the seminar content and adapt it for their own use. Chick has dedicated his professional life to helping both students and teachers find success in the classroom and in life. He is the author of Spirit Whisperers: Teachers Who Nourish A Child’s Spirit, Teacher Talk: What it Really Means and Our Classroom: We Can Learn Together. Please enjoy this down-to-earth, common sense approach to motivating the unmotivated.

“Excellent seminar! Great teaching strategies intermixed with a good dose of humor.”
- Cheryl Howard, First Grade Teacher

Order Information

Each audio program comes with its own comprehensive resource handbook specifically designed for that program, and includes includes samples of the techniques demonstrated, resource materials to help you implement these strategies with your students and ready-to-duplicate activities for immediate classroom use...

Each individual audio program in U.S. funds costs $95.00 plus $9.00 shipping and handling.
Note: for orders shipped to a WA State address add 9.0% state sales tax.

Each individual audio program in Canadian funds costs $95.00 plus 12% shipping and handling.

For orders from outside the U.S. and Canada, please email us.