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

Kottler, Jeffrey A.; Kottler, Ellen

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ISBN 10: 1412965284 ISBN 13: 9781412965286

Casa editrice: Corwin Pr, 2008

Riassunto

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, counselors, and school administrators, this updated volume provides:

• More tips for developing active listening skills that improve communication with students 
• Suggestions for creating caring communities in the classroom
• A new section on dealing with aggressive and violent behavior
• Information on understanding parent behavior and suggestions for building positive connections with parents and families

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Recensione:

"An absolutely necessary read for educators. The commonsense model assesses and outlines how to respond to challenging students, parents, and colleagues. This work is making a difference in my school." (Bonnie Tryon, Principal 2008-04-07)

"This book offers strategies, understanding, and hope for practicing educators who find themselves struggling with particular students on a daily basis and who want to reach out to students to help them reach their educational goals." (Danielle Torres, Assistant Professor of School Counseling 2008-04-07)

"The book is a compact overview of the equivalent of an entire college course, blending student psychology, classroom management, and introduction to counseling." (Katy Olweiler, Middle School Counselor 2008-04-07)

"With its person-in-environment analysis and intervention model, this book is a good resource in the library of a school social worker. It allows for balanced and nuanced consideration of behavior and provides a framework for ethical and culturally competent practice." (David Roden, School Social Worker 2011-11-18)

L'autore:

Jeffrey A. Kottler is one of the most prolific authors in the fields of counseling, psychotherapy, and education, having written more than 90 books about a wide range of subjects. He has authored a dozen texts for counselors and therapists that are used in universities around the world and a dozen books each for practicing therapists and educators. Some of his most highly regarded works include Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy, The Mummy at the Dining Room Table: Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Unusual Cases and What They Teach Us About Human Behavior, Bad Therapy, The Client Who Changed Me, Divine Madness, Change: What Leads to Personal Transformation, Stories We’ve Heard, Stories We’ve Told: Life-Changing Narratives in Therapy and Everyday Life, and Therapy Over 50. He has been an educator for 40 years, having worked as a teacher, counselor, and therapist in preschool, middle school, mental health center, crisis center, nongovernmental organization, university, community college, private practice, and disaster relief settings. He has served as a Fulbright scholar and senior lecturer in Peru and Iceland, as well as worked as a visiting professor in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Nepal. He is professor of counseling at California State University, Fullerton.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Corwin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1412965284
• ISBN 13: 9781412965286
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 153