Imagine that you are a biology teacher. devon, a high-school junior, seems bright and articulate, but he is failing your class. you examine his cumulative file and find that, until last year, he has been an average to above-average student. at that point, however, his grades started to slide. in subsequent conversations devon admits that he is discouraged. he says that he is trying, but he just does not know how to improve. based on what you have learned in this module, explain one possible reason for this academic change. as a teacher, how can you devon improve academically? what can you do to motivate and engage devon? print friendly, pdf & email

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Marian recently made the decision to try to re-wallpaper her own kitchen—which was a mistake given her personality! to compound the mistake, she selected a complex wallpaper pattern that included flowers and trees. each time she put one strip of paper on the wall, she became increasingly upset if there was not a perfect match from the pattern of one strip to the next. if one flower was off by as much as one-tenth of an inch, she would tear down the strip, remove the excess paste, and try again with the next strip. over eight hours after she started this job, she has only succeeded at putting up six strips of wallpaper, which covered about 10 percent of the room in which she was working. marian may suffer from personality disorder.

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