Students Who Drive You Crazy : Succeeding With Resistant, Unmotivated, and Otherwise Difficult Young People.

Students Who Drive You Crazy : Succeeding With Resistant, Unmotivated, and Otherwise Difficult Young People.

Take a proactive approach with your most challenging students! This second edition of a bestseller gives teachers a model to assess, understand, and respond to challenging students, plus new tables, charts, and reflection questions. Offering real-life scenarios from interviews with teachers, counsel...

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Main Author: Kottler, Jeffrey A.
Other Authors: Kottler, Ellen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2008.
Subjects:
Problem children > Education.
Problem children > Education
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Chapter 1
  • Why Do Some Students Drive You Crazy?
  • At a Loss about What to Do
  • Eye of the Beholder
  • So, Who Gets to You?
  • Chapter 2
  • Which Students Challenge You Most?
  • Students from Hell
  • Profiles of Students Who are Difficult
  • Placing Actions in Context
  • Chapter 3
  • Understanding Students' Challenging Behavior
  • They are Doing the Best They Can
  • Additional Functions of Conflict
  • When Biology Has Its Say
  • Creating Difficult Students
  • Multiple Viewpoints
  • Chapter 4
  • What Students Do to Make You Crazy
  • Separating Students and Behavior
  • Protecting Yourself
  • Pushing Our Buttons
  • How Do You Know When a Student is Driving You Crazy?
  • How Failure Helps
  • Engaging the Challenging Student
  • Recognizing Your Limitations
  • Don't Take the Conflict Personally
  • It Comes with the Territory
  • Chapter 5
  • Changing Your Own Behavior
  • Detachment Without Withdrawal
  • Talking to Yourself
  • Processing Disappointments Internally
  • Stop Complaining
  • Keeping Your Sense of Humor
  • Recognizing Accomplishments and Strengths
  • Reframing Problems
  • Being Flexible
  • Seeking Support
  • Help Yourself First
  • Chapter 6
  • Strategies for Improving Students' Behavior
  • Some Rules of Engagement
  • Develop a Sense of Community
  • Hold Class Meetings
  • Maintain a Learning Evironment
  • Use Counseling Skills
  • Collaborate with others
  • Brief Interventions
  • When Things are Going Right
  • Developing Alternate Perspectives
  • Applications to other Situations
  • Chapter 7
  • Parents and Colleagues Who Drive You Crazy
  • The Least of Our Problems
  • Teachers Who Don't Understand
  • Administrators Who Handcuff Us
  • Parents Who Fight Us
  • What about You?
  • Those Who Abuse You
  • Chapter 8
  • Preventing Future Problems
  • Proactive Versus Reactive Strategies.
  • Paying Attention to Feedback
  • Teacher Strategies That Maintain Momentum
  • Acknowledge Conflict
  • Models of Resolution
  • Peer Mediation
  • Schoolwide Programs
  • In Summary
  • References and Suggested Readings
  • Index.

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