please , tell me about peers influence on achievement?
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This may help:  http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/CDA00-06.cfm
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get involved with the students and know them beyond the teacher/student relationship.  is there anything that they're dealing with at school?  perhaps a school event?  talk with them about things other than books and problems.  i don't know what grade level you're talking about and i'm not a teacher, just a student.  perhaps have activities that can show the students that it's not all about homework and tests.  how to do this?  not so sure.  but these are my suggestions.
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Well, I would say assessment.\nI am doing one about whether students are more aware of assessment levels for reading and writing than speaking and listening (they are).\n\nOther people I know are doing whether written or verbal feedback is more effective in raising pupils marks.\n\nIts always useful to do something about disaffected boys and which type assessment works for them, peer marking, verbal or written.\nTry doing something simple like is it better to write a grade on a students work or not, because most students just read the mark and not the corrections or comments.\n\nThere are lots of useful books about action research, I got one off Amazon -Action Research in Classrooms and Schools by David Hustler.\n\nGood luck\n\n\nP.S contact me if you need to discuss futher.
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Unless you are at a school of technology,with more tech that I have seen in a highschool, both of your example projects are way out of reach.  and unless you improve your english,written and I am assunimg verbal, it wont matter what project you turn in.  My high school project was the effect of different diets, high fat, high cholesterol, high salt and high protein  on the performance of albino rats in simple to complex mazes.  The project lasted the entire school year.
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If he has no problem with this, seems fine to me.  Are you helping him out in another way, unrelated to the project?\n\nWhen I was in school and we had group projects, I never minded doing the whole thing.  I generally got good grades and if the people I got paired with weren't the studious type, they more than welcomed me to do the whole thing.\n\nIn fact, since it's your friend who's doing the project, that should make it easier.  You probably got his back on something else sometime down the road, even if it's not school related.
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Give them plenty of opportunities to get up and move around.  Cooperative groups work well.  You must remember to model for them the things you want them to do.  Patience is key and so is structure. They are very anxious to please and will thrive with your excitement about their learning!  Weekly themes work very nicely- both for you (it's easy to plan), and for them (they keep focused).
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Well, I have no friends and I'm not complaining. Like you, I am a nerd, but that's a compliment. In essence, they're admitting you're smarter than them. I suggest you accept yourself; don't try to change, because then you'd become a fraud. Besides you have your whole life ahead of you--especially, if you are a middle school or high school student.  Just know that when you do something great (which I hope you think you will and can do. Ambition is a gift.) that you probably won't even remember these people.
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the better you feel about yourself and the more motivated you are, the better you will be able to achieve.  Do a search on "motivation and academic achievement" or academic achievement and self-image
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Grades\nHomework\nTests
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Have every student thank the teacher/s that influenced them the most. Tell the teachers why they made a differece in your lives. Teachers strive to make a difference in their student's lives and to hear that they made a difference will make them feel like they not only did their jobs but went the extra mile. Bring some tissues 'cause there will be many tears shed during the ceramony.
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Attention imho... be it to seek positive or negative approval or opinions from peers, teachers or parents...
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Learn as much as you can about people.  There are a lot of books on the subject.  Some books to read:  How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie, Positive Personality Profiles - Robert Rohm, Psycho Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz.  Listen to Earl Nightingale's "The Strangest Secret".  Sales is something that can be learned just like anything else.  But your lifetime study will be about people and what makes them click.
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I had some great teachers when I was in elementary-h.s. and the best ones influenced me to go on and be a teacher myself. What I learned from them, I applied in my classroom. What I learned from the not so good teachers (thank goodness those were very few) I remembered never to do in my class.\n\nI went back and thanked my high school teachers who had an impact on me. I told them that they had such an impact, it influenced my future to become a teacher. It is one of the best things you can do for someone who did something positive in your life...reward them by telling them that.
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If you mean be strict right off the bat, I would say it works. Of course, there will almost always be one or 2 kids who will probably challenge you. Those are the ones that usually end up respecting the teacher/ adult the most. That's my experience anyway...And there are some kids who will never respect certain adults for their own reasons.
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It depends on the class level. I find that a lot of students don't care about their grades and slack off until they get towards the end of the marking period and then start to freak out asking me if they're going to fail and what they can do now so that they don't fail. But, that's mostly in my lower-level classes. In my high-level classes, I have kids that freak out over a B and kids that won't accept anything less than an A. Yes, sometimes the pressure does come from the parents, but I've found that more often than not, the pressure comes from within the kid. They want to get into a good college, they want to get scholarships, they want to be valedictorian, and on and on. At the high school level (I teach 11th grade history), parents can no longer motivate the students. The students have to motivate themselves. Parents can punish, parents can yell, parents can stand over the kid while they do their homework, but overall, the kids have to be the ones who want the grades.
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I think it is a reallllllly BAD idea to get lower grades on purpose.\n\nAnd I don't think you're grades have to determine who your friends are. Just because you get good grades doesn't mean you have to hang out with people who get good grades.\n\nThats like saying all doctors must hang out with doctors.\n\nPlease DO NOT get lower grades on purpose. Be happy you're known as a "smart kid" and not a "dumb kid".
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well it has many effects, especially because they are your friends. Peer pressure has a lot to do with the teens and adults drinking right now, because they offer and the teen or adult don't say no because they "want to be cool like their friends." and then they get used to it and then they become alcohol addicts.