Some students are perceived by educators as "difficult" to manage. Working with them can be exhausting and frustrating at times. Unfortunately, because of the behavioral challenges they present to educators, these students sometimes do not receive the support and encouragement they need to succeed. This book contains collections of ready-to-use strategies and activities for unlocking the potentials of "difficult" students. Learn "best-strategies" for reaching and helping these students.
This book also provides many innovative ideas for managing and surviving the "difficult classroom." Helpful insights into home issues and other underlying causes of difficult behaviors are included. (Grades K-6) (Also see Innovative Strategies… Difficult Adolescents (Grades 7-12))
Tom Carr holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling and Guidance from Syracuse University and is a National Board Certified Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor. He has been a school counselor for twenty years and presently works for Orange County Schools in North Carolina. He also owns his own private practice, Carr Counseling & Consultation, Inc. and he is an educational consultant for The Strength Coaching Foundation in his community which helps provide financial support for children with special gifts, strengths, and talents. Tom has presented hundreds of workshops across the country for parents, counselors, and teachers. He has written several books including, 131 Creative Strategies, Keeping Love Alive in the Family, Monday Morning Messages, A Parents Blueprint, Every Child has a Gift, Handbook for Helping Kids with Anxiety and Stress, and his most recent book Return to the Land
Dr. Robert P. Bowman has presented motivational workshops and/or conference keynote speeches in 42 states and in Canada, Belgium, England, Italy, West Germany, Puerto Rico, Kenya, and Tanzania. He is an innovator and collector of creative, research-proven techniques and strategies for helping youth. He is also known as a relentless cheerleader for professionals working with chronically difficult young people. Dr. Bowman, Emeritus Professor, taught in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of South Carolina for more than 20 years. He has authored numerous articles in professional journals and has written more than 22 books and programs that help troubled youth bring about positive changes in themselves and their peers.
Kathy Cooper, M.S.W. is known as an outstanding presenter with an extensive collection of creative and useful strategies for working with many different types of difficult students. People leave her workshops feeling "energized" and "full of many fresh ideas and strategies." Kathy has worked with difficult youth as a social worker and school counselor where she has been developing strategies that lead to real-and-lasting positive changes in the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of difficult students. She is the co-author of Power Play and Quality Times for Quality Kids.
Ron Miles, Ph.D. is an inspirational speaker and workshop leader who has presented motivational workshops for educators around the United States. Participants leave his workshops with an extensive collection of practical strategies and activities they can use with students. He is especially known for his work with alternative approaches for "cutting through" to difficult youth. Ron is the Director of Guidance for an inner-city school district and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of South Carolina. He has won several state and national awards for his dedication in helping Youth. In 1998 he was named National Guidance Administrator of the Year by the American School Counselors Association.
