Students Who Drive You Crazy
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"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
Golding Elementary School, Cobleskill, NY
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. The book also provides strategies for handling relationships with difficult parents and colleagues.
This fully updated survival guide offers additional strategies to help teachers manage difficult students, including those who break rules and those who are withdrawn, plus new tables and charts and questions for reflection. With real-life scenarios from interviews with teachers, counselors, and school administrators, this volume provides:
- More tips for developing active listening skills that improve communication with students and their parents
- 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
- Research from the related disciplines of nursing, social work, psychology, counseling, and family therapy
Use this authoritative handbook to establish healthy, positive relationships with students and maintain a supportive learning environment in the classroom.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
1. Why Do Some Students Drive You Crazy?
- At a Loss About What to Do
- Eye of the Beholder
- So, Who Gets to You?
2. Which Students Challenge You Most?
- Students From Hell
- Profiles of Students Who Are Difficult
- Placing Actions in Context
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
4. What Students Do to Make You Crazy
- Separating Students and Behavior
- Protecting Yourself
- Pushing Our Buttons
- How Failure Helps
- Engaging the Challenging Student
- Recognizing Your Limitations
- Don't Take the Conflict Personally
- It Comes With the Territory
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
6. Strategies for Changing Students' Behavior
- Some Rules of Engagement
- Develop a Sense of Community
- Use Counseling Skills
- Collaborate With Others
- Brief Interventions
- Develop Alternate Perspectives
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
8. Preventing Future Problems
- Proactive Versus Reactive Strategies
- Paying Attention to Feedback
- Teacher Strategies That Maintain Momentum
- Conflict Resolution
- In Summary
References and Suggested Readings
References and Suggested Readings
Index
Index
Description
"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
Golding Elementary School, Cobleskill, NY
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. The book also provides strategies for handling relationships with difficult parents and colleagues.
This fully updated survival guide offers additional strategies to help teachers manage difficult students, including those who break rules and those who are withdrawn, plus new tables and charts and questions for reflection. With real-life scenarios from interviews with teachers, counselors, and school administrators, this volume provides:
- More tips for developing active listening skills that improve communication with students and their parents
- 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
- Research from the related disciplines of nursing, social work, psychology, counseling, and family therapy
Use this authoritative handbook to establish healthy, positive relationships with students and maintain a supportive learning environment in the classroom.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
1. Why Do Some Students Drive You Crazy?
- At a Loss About What to Do
- Eye of the Beholder
- So, Who Gets to You?
2. Which Students Challenge You Most?
- Students From Hell
- Profiles of Students Who Are Difficult
- Placing Actions in Context
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
4. What Students Do to Make You Crazy
- Separating Students and Behavior
- Protecting Yourself
- Pushing Our Buttons
- How Failure Helps
- Engaging the Challenging Student
- Recognizing Your Limitations
- Don't Take the Conflict Personally
- It Comes With the Territory
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
6. Strategies for Changing Students' Behavior
- Some Rules of Engagement
- Develop a Sense of Community
- Use Counseling Skills
- Collaborate With Others
- Brief Interventions
- Develop Alternate Perspectives
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
8. Preventing Future Problems
- Proactive Versus Reactive Strategies
- Paying Attention to Feedback
- Teacher Strategies That Maintain Momentum
- Conflict Resolution
- In Summary
References and Suggested Readings
References and Suggested Readings
Index
Index
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Students Who Drive You Crazy
Succeeding With Resistant, Unmotivated, and Otherwise Difficult Young People
August 2008 | 168 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781412965293 | $37.95 |
| Hardcover | 01/02/2026 | 9781412965286 | $79.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781452295206 | $35.00 |
"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
Golding Elementary School, Cobleskill, NY
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. The book also provides strategies for handling relationships with difficult parents and colleagues.
This fully updated survival guide offers additional strategies to help teachers manage difficult students, including those who break rules and those who are withdrawn, plus new tables and charts and questions for reflection. With real-life scenarios from interviews with teachers, counselors, and school administrators, this volume provides:
- More tips for developing active listening skills that improve communication with students and their parents
- 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
- Research from the related disciplines of nursing, social work, psychology, counseling, and family therapy
Use this authoritative handbook to establish healthy, positive relationships with students and maintain a supportive learning environment in the classroom.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- 1. Why Do Some Students Drive You Crazy?
- At a Loss About What to Do
- Eye of the Beholder
- So, Who Gets to You?
- 2. Which Students Challenge You Most?
- Students From Hell
- Profiles of Students Who Are Difficult
- Placing Actions in Context
- 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
- 4. What Students Do to Make You Crazy
- Separating Students and Behavior
- Protecting Yourself
- Pushing Our Buttons
- How Failure Helps
- Engaging the Challenging Student
- Recognizing Your Limitations
- Don't Take the Conflict Personally
- It Comes With the Territory
- 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
- 6. Strategies for Changing Students' Behavior
- Some Rules of Engagement
- Develop a Sense of Community
- Use Counseling Skills
- Collaborate With Others
- Brief Interventions
- Develop Alternate Perspectives
- 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
- 8. Preventing Future Problems
- Proactive Versus Reactive Strategies
- Paying Attention to Feedback
- Teacher Strategies That Maintain Momentum
- Conflict Resolution
- In Summary
- References and Suggested Readings
- Index