{"id":12374,"date":"2026-06-11T09:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=12374"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:36:45","slug":"faculty-member-publishes-textbook-for-teaching-at-risk-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2026\/06\/11\/faculty-member-publishes-textbook-for-teaching-at-risk-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty member publishes textbook for teaching at-risk students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-12376 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/06\/Book-cover-400x600.png\" alt=\"author, title, graphic of facial profiles in multiple colors\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/06\/Book-cover-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/06\/Book-cover-207x310.png 207w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/06\/Book-cover-400x600.png 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/06\/Book-cover-600x900.png 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/06\/Book-cover.png 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>June 11, 2026\u2013Dr Benedict Adams, associate professor of education at Missouri Western State University, has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/document\/1559600\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published a textbook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to help educators prepare to teach at-risk students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPedagogy for a Successful Multicultural Classroom. A Sociocultural-Based Method for Teaching and Reaching At-Risk Students\u201d was published earlier this year by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe book serves as a sociocultural-based method for both graduate and undergraduate students, providing practical frameworks that will be beneficial throughout their teaching careers,\u201d said Dr. Eric C. Sheffield, Western Illinois University. \u201cOne of the pressing issues in academia is classroom management. This book addresses this topic directly, offering practical tools and strategies for both experienced and novice teachers to effectively manage classrooms with at-risk students from diverse backgrounds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Adams has been at MoWest since 2019. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Suffield University in Idaho, and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Indiana University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Adams was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Certificate of Excellence from Indiana University in 2014. In 2024, he was named Outstanding Teacher Educator at Missouri Western State University and in 2025, he received MoWest\u2019s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drum Major for Justice Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. MoWest is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 11, 2026\u2013Dr Benedict Adams, associate professor of education at Missouri Western State University, has published a textbook to help educators prepare to teach at-risk students. \u201cPedagogy for a Successful Multicultural Classroom. A Sociocultural-Based Method for Teaching and Reaching At-Risk Students\u201d was published earlier this year by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. \u201cThe book serves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12380,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12374\/revisions\/12380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}