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How to Help Your Teen Succeed in School

After a couple of decades of working with teenaged students, I’ve come to this conclusion. Every teen, no matter how they are doing in school and no matter what they say about school, knows that education is valuable and would like to be getting good grades. If this is so, you may ask, how do I explain why so many teens aren’t doing better in school? More importantly, you may be thinking, if that’s true, what can we parents do to help our teens do better? In his best-selling book Drive, author Daniel Pink stresses that people are naturally motivated

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Intelligence and Motivation

Many students are not doing as well in school as they or their parents would like. Others have to work unreasonable hours to get good results. In both these situations, many teens form negative opinions about themselves: “I’m not good at this subject.” “I can’t do it.” “I am a procrastinator.” They think that there’s something wrong with their intelligence and motivation, which in turn, causes further poor performance and discouragement. Instead, we have found that student performance depends mostly on doing enough of the right kind of practice, rather than on intelligence and motivation. Obviously there are differences between

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