Succeeding With Difficult Students: New Strategies for Reaching Your Most Challenging Students (What Principals Need to Know)

Turn your students' lives around and reduce your own stress with practical techniques that focus on building positive relationships and shaping constructive classroom behavior. This book offers strategies for meeting the needs of difficult students and teaching lifelong interpersonal skills. Learn to identify when and why a student misbehaves, and develop a behavior plan based on the students special needs.

Benefits:

• Rebuild broken trust, and develop positive relationships with even the most challenging students.
• Increase student self-esteem by focusing on appropriate behavior.
• Develop proactive rather than reactive responses to student behavior.
• Use intervention strategies to limit confrontations and office referrals.
• Successfully defuse confrontational or controlling behaviors.

Contents:
Section One: Reaching Out to Difficult Students
Chapter 1: Who Are Difficult Students?
Chapter 2: Building Trust
Chapter 3: Proactive vs. Reactive Responses
Chapter 4: Establishing Positive Relationships With Difficult Students

Section Two: Meeting the Special Needs of Difficult Students
Chapter 5: Identifying the Primary Needs of Difficult Students
Chapter 6: Teaching Appropriate Behavior
Chapter 7: Providing Positive Support
Chapter 8: Redirecting Nondisruptive Off-Task Behavior
Chapter 9: Decreasing Disruptive Behavior

Section Three: Communicating With Difficult Students
Chapter 10: Defusing Confrontations
Chapter 11: One-to-One Problem-Solving

Section Four: Additional Strategies
Chapter 12: Additional Strategies: Individualized Behavior Plans
Part One--Classroom Plans
Part Two--Home-School Plans
Part Three--Administrator Plans

Lee Canter, the developer of Assertive Discipline and Classroom Management for Academic Success, has enjoyed a lengthy career as a creator of cutting-edge training programs for educators. Lee attended California State University, and then completed a master s degree in social work at the University of Southern California. In 1970 he began serving as a psychiatric social worker for children in southern California. He soon realized that if teachers were trained to manage their students behavior, they could have a positive impact on those students lives. Lee s passion for helping children succeed in the classroom led to the research and development of his well-known Assertive Discipline program, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies and trained more than a million teachers. He has authored more than 40 best-selling books for educators. Lee and Marlene Canter are known nationally for their professional development programs for educators. Their work in education and parenting has been covered extensively by the news media, and Lee has been a guest speaker at numerous educational conferences. The Canters have written more than 50 books and produced more than 10 video programs geared to helping educators and parents raise happy, responsible children.