SUCCESSFUL

VS.
STRUGGLING STUDENTS
• The longer a student is allowed to struggle, the more severe it becomes.
• Teachers should seek out these students and provide the instruction and encouragement to
succeed.
Effective Learners Ineffective Learners
Engagement • Actively participant • Passive learners
in the • Initiate interaction with teachers • Little interaction with teachers
learning • Possess wide knowledge base • Limited background knowledge
process • Understand the reason to learn • Negative about learning activities
• Frequently miss assignments

Self- • Actively monitor & regulate • Use few metacognitive skills to

regulation learning regulate learning
of learning • Use multiple strategies to enhance • Use few or inefficient strategies to
memory, organization learn
• Initiate the learning process • Difficulty staying on-task or focused
• Show enthusiasm • Make frequent errors
Attribution • Intrinsic motivation • Extrinsic motivation
and • Goal oriented • Moment-oriented
Motivation • Internal locus of control • External locus of control
• Accept ‘status quo’ of tasks • Question ‘value/need’ for some
tasks
Prosocial • Wide range of appropriate • Limited appropriate behavior
Behaviors behavior and social skills • Deficits in social skills
• Follow rules • Violate rules
• Respond to low-level • Don’t meet (social) expectations
consequences and punishment • Unresponsive to low-level
consequences and punishment

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