How to Deal With Teachers Who Are Angry, Troubled, Exhausted, or Just Plain Confused
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Use Assertive Intervention techniques to help difficult teachers become positive and energetic professionals!
How to Deal With Teachers Who are Angry, Troubled, Exhausted, or Just Plain Confused is an indispensable handbook for educators hoping to manage, shape, and improve teacher behaviors with the ultimate goal of improving student achievement and performance. This resource offers case studies from principals who have successfully managed dysfunctional and low-performing teachers, scripts for achieving effective communication, and a culture-builder's toolkit with exercises and assessments.
In this research-based text, best-selling author Elaine McEwan introduces a new approach-Assertive Intervention-for dealing with a principal's most pressing challenge: How to manage difficult teachers effectively while empowering them as professionals. Assertive Intervention strategies show administrators, staff developers and mentors how to:
- Confront difficult teachers with calm and confidence
- Conduct an Assertive Intervention meeting
- Energize and motivate teachers
- Significantly improve interactions with troubled teachers
- Build a positive school culture
This invaluable tool provides practical tools that can be put into practice immediately, and can be used with classroom teachers across all levels.
Contents
Preface
- Who This Book Is For
- Special Features of the Book
- Overview of the Contents
- A Matter of Definition
- A Cautionary Note
- Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
1. Seven Habits of Highly Effective Principals: How to Deal With Difficult Teachers
- Seven Habits for Dealing Positively With Difficult Teachers
- Summing Up
2. How to Conduct an Assertive Intervention: Tell It Like It Is
- The Critical Attributes of Assertive Intervention
- The Three Stages of Assertive Intervention
- How to Conduct Assertive Intervention
- Summing Up
3. Strategies for Dealing With Angry, Hostile, or Just Plain Tiresome Teachers
- Understanding Angry Teachers
- What Works and What Doesn't?
- Kinds of Angry Teachers
- How to Deal With Angry Teachers
- A Case Study: The Critical and Mean-Spirited Teacher
- Summing Up
4. Strategies for Dealing With Teachers Who Are Temporarily Troubled, Mentally Disordered, or Are in Trouble With the Law
- Characteristics of Teachers Who Are Temporarily Troubled
- Characteristics of Teachers With Mental Disorders
- Characteristics of Teachers Who Are in Trouble With the Law
- How to Deal With Teachers Who Are Temporarily Troubled
- How to Deal With Teachers Who Have Mental Disorders
- How to Deal With Teachers Who Are in Trouble With the Law
- Summing Up
5. Strategies for Dealing With Teachers Who Are Exhausted, Stressed, or Burned Out
- A Principal's Perspective
- Sources of Energy
- Factors That Sap Personal Energy
- Characteristics of Exhausted Teachers
- How Administrators Sap Their Teachers' Energies
- How to Deal With an Exhausted School
- Summing Up
6.Strategies for Dealing With Teachers Who Are Confused, Marginal, or Just Plain Incompetent
- Characteristics of Instructionally Challenged Teachers
- How to Deal With Instructionally Challenged Teachers
- Summing Up
7. Sixty Ways to Affirm, Energize, and Empower Teachers
7. Sixty Ways to Affirm, Energize, and Empower Teachers
Conclusion
Conclusion
Resource A: The Communicator's A-Z Handbook
Resource A: The Communicator's A-Z Handbook
Resource B: The Culture-Builder's Toolkit
Resource B: The Culture-Builder's Toolkit
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
Use Assertive Intervention techniques to help difficult teachers become positive and energetic professionals!
How to Deal With Teachers Who are Angry, Troubled, Exhausted, or Just Plain Confused is an indispensable handbook for educators hoping to manage, shape, and improve teacher behaviors with the ultimate goal of improving student achievement and performance. This resource offers case studies from principals who have successfully managed dysfunctional and low-performing teachers, scripts for achieving effective communication, and a culture-builder's toolkit with exercises and assessments.
In this research-based text, best-selling author Elaine McEwan introduces a new approach-Assertive Intervention-for dealing with a principal's most pressing challenge: How to manage difficult teachers effectively while empowering them as professionals. Assertive Intervention strategies show administrators, staff developers and mentors how to:
- Confront difficult teachers with calm and confidence
- Conduct an Assertive Intervention meeting
- Energize and motivate teachers
- Significantly improve interactions with troubled teachers
- Build a positive school culture
This invaluable tool provides practical tools that can be put into practice immediately, and can be used with classroom teachers across all levels.
Contents
Preface
- Who This Book Is For
- Special Features of the Book
- Overview of the Contents
- A Matter of Definition
- A Cautionary Note
- Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
1. Seven Habits of Highly Effective Principals: How to Deal With Difficult Teachers
- Seven Habits for Dealing Positively With Difficult Teachers
- Summing Up
2. How to Conduct an Assertive Intervention: Tell It Like It Is
- The Critical Attributes of Assertive Intervention
- The Three Stages of Assertive Intervention
- How to Conduct Assertive Intervention
- Summing Up
3. Strategies for Dealing With Angry, Hostile, or Just Plain Tiresome Teachers
- Understanding Angry Teachers
- What Works and What Doesn't?
- Kinds of Angry Teachers
- How to Deal With Angry Teachers
- A Case Study: The Critical and Mean-Spirited Teacher
- Summing Up
4. Strategies for Dealing With Teachers Who Are Temporarily Troubled, Mentally Disordered, or Are in Trouble With the Law
- Characteristics of Teachers Who Are Temporarily Troubled
- Characteristics of Teachers With Mental Disorders
- Characteristics of Teachers Who Are in Trouble With the Law
- How to Deal With Teachers Who Are Temporarily Troubled
- How to Deal With Teachers Who Have Mental Disorders
- How to Deal With Teachers Who Are in Trouble With the Law
- Summing Up
5. Strategies for Dealing With Teachers Who Are Exhausted, Stressed, or Burned Out
- A Principal's Perspective
- Sources of Energy
- Factors That Sap Personal Energy
- Characteristics of Exhausted Teachers
- How Administrators Sap Their Teachers' Energies
- How to Deal With an Exhausted School
- Summing Up
6.Strategies for Dealing With Teachers Who Are Confused, Marginal, or Just Plain Incompetent
- Characteristics of Instructionally Challenged Teachers
- How to Deal With Instructionally Challenged Teachers
- Summing Up
7. Sixty Ways to Affirm, Energize, and Empower Teachers
7. Sixty Ways to Affirm, Energize, and Empower Teachers
Conclusion
Conclusion
Resource A: The Communicator's A-Z Handbook
Resource A: The Communicator's A-Z Handbook
Resource B: The Culture-Builder's Toolkit
Resource B: The Culture-Builder's Toolkit
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
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How to Deal With Teachers Who Are Angry, Troubled, Exhausted, or Just Plain Confused
June 2005 | 280 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9780761938194 | $40.95 |
| Lifetime | 27/02/2023 | 9781452237183 | $37.00 |
Use Assertive Intervention techniques to help difficult teachers become positive and energetic professionals!
How to Deal With Teachers Who are Angry, Troubled, Exhausted, or Just Plain Confused is an indispensable handbook for educators hoping to manage, shape, and improve teacher behaviors with the ultimate goal of improving student achievement and performance. This resource offers case studies from principals who have successfully managed dysfunctional and low-performing teachers, scripts for achieving effective communication, and a culture-builder's toolkit with exercises and assessments.
In this research-based text, best-selling author Elaine McEwan introduces a new approach-Assertive Intervention-for dealing with a principal's most pressing challenge: How to manage difficult teachers effectively while empowering them as professionals. Assertive Intervention strategies show administrators, staff developers and mentors how to:
- Confront difficult teachers with calm and confidence
- Conduct an Assertive Intervention meeting
- Energize and motivate teachers
- Significantly improve interactions with troubled teachers
- Build a positive school culture
This invaluable tool provides practical tools that can be put into practice immediately, and can be used with classroom teachers across all levels.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Who This Book Is For
- Special Features of the Book
- Overview of the Contents
- A Matter of Definition
- A Cautionary Note
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- 1. Seven Habits of Highly Effective Principals: How to Deal With Difficult Teachers
- Seven Habits for Dealing Positively With Difficult Teachers
- Summing Up
- 2. How to Conduct an Assertive Intervention: Tell It Like It Is
- The Critical Attributes of Assertive Intervention
- The Three Stages of Assertive Intervention
- How to Conduct Assertive Intervention
- Summing Up
- 3. Strategies for Dealing With Angry, Hostile, or Just Plain Tiresome Teachers
- Understanding Angry Teachers
- What Works and What Doesn't?
- Kinds of Angry Teachers
- How to Deal With Angry Teachers
- A Case Study: The Critical and Mean-Spirited Teacher
- Summing Up
- 4. Strategies for Dealing With Teachers Who Are Temporarily Troubled, Mentally Disordered, or Are in Trouble With the Law
- Characteristics of Teachers Who Are Temporarily Troubled
- Characteristics of Teachers With Mental Disorders
- Characteristics of Teachers Who Are in Trouble With the Law
- How to Deal With Teachers Who Are Temporarily Troubled
- How to Deal With Teachers Who Have Mental Disorders
- How to Deal With Teachers Who Are in Trouble With the Law
- Summing Up
- 5. Strategies for Dealing With Teachers Who Are Exhausted, Stressed, or Burned Out
- A Principal's Perspective
- Sources of Energy
- Factors That Sap Personal Energy
- Characteristics of Exhausted Teachers
- How Administrators Sap Their Teachers' Energies
- How to Deal With an Exhausted School
- Summing Up
- 6.Strategies for Dealing With Teachers Who Are Confused, Marginal, or Just Plain Incompetent
- Characteristics of Instructionally Challenged Teachers
- How to Deal With Instructionally Challenged Teachers
- Summing Up
- 7. Sixty Ways to Affirm, Energize, and Empower Teachers
- Conclusion
- Resource A: The Communicator's A-Z Handbook
- Resource B: The Culture-Builder's Toolkit
- References
- Index