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Motivating Kids to the Max
A Practical and Candid Handbook for Parents, Teachers, Counselors, Administrators and Guidance Interns
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MOTIVATING KIDS TO THE MAX focuses on implementing changes within each member of the school community so as to boost and energize student performance. Relying on practical, everyday solutions, and filled with techniques and entertaining anecdotes, this is an invaluable resource for parents, teachers, counselors, administrators and anyone who seeks to make students more effective.
A major complaint about some of today’s schools is the lack of professional and caring guidance services. Award-winning guidance counselor Dr. Richard O’Connell has the solution. Using diplomacy, humor, and his decades of experience, Dr. O’Connell gives step-by-step instructions on how counselors, administrators, teachers and parents can all pull together to motivate students.
Dr. O’Connell deals with the mechanics of guidance, from college planning to government regulations to helping learning disabled students. Opening up dialogues and listening to what is being said is key, suggests Dr.O’Connell. Packed with hands-on information and techniques, he stresses that for parents and school personnel to be effective, they must impact the entire school community. Warmly written, O’Connell’s handbook is nothing less than the quintessential guide to helping students improve their school performance.
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| By Lisa Di Benneddetto, (Parent and former corporate media specialist): | “MOTIVATING KIDS TO THE MAX” by Dr. Richard O’Connell, is truly the quintessential guide to motivating children. What the author does is to re-invent, clarify, humanize and add life to the previously mundane task of guidance counseling. The book is a quick read further enhanced by the many anecdotes that provide real-life applications for the many insights so useful to parent and counselor alike.
The author’s approach is an artful combination of diplomacy, humor and decades of experience in the real world of guiding young people to achieve their full potential. It is a step-by-step guide for how counselors, administrators, teachers and parents can pull together for the benefit of the student. Dr. O’Connell has effectively identified the rough spots (that typically have to do with ego or lack of experience) that can easily derail what should be a harmonious team effort within the school system in the student’s behalf. The many awards earned for superior guidance skills are reflected in the author’s understanding of human nature and willingness to adjust, fine tune or even reverse his approach when warranted.
As a public relations professional specializing in training corporate chief executive officers to deal with confrontational media interviews, I recognized many of the same techniques in Dr. O'Connell's approach to preparing students for college interviews. The author's success as a guidance counselor is clearly built upon a powerfully refined and intuitive sense about people including students, parents, college admissions officers and the entire extended school community. These same people skills are artfully applied to identifying and developing his students' natural talents and promoting these strengths to college universities or vocational situations.
As the mother of four (three already in college), the book provided insights I had not previously considered and which will surely prove valuable when my fourth child applies to college. Clearly, Dr. O’Connell’s approach leaves no student behind from the most challenged to the most gifted. His anecdotes about foreign students and his work helping them to mainstream into the school community demonstrate that every student has something important to contribute to the school. The author is equally skilled at guiding highly gifted students to the best schools in the nation. “MOTIVATING KIDS TO THE MAX” was a quick and joyful read, illuminating and delightful in every way. It should become a reference book for guidance counselors nationwide and it is a must-read for parents and other school personnel who desire to guide and assist their children and students in achieving their full potential. |
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