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

Kottler Ph.D., Jeffrey A.; Kottler, Ellen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1412965284 ISBN 13 : 9781412965286

Editeur : Corwin Press Inc, 2008

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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.

Ellen Kottler, Ed.S., has been a teacher for over 30 years in public and private schools, alternative schools, adult education programs, and universities. She has worked in inner-city schools as well as in suburban and rural set-tings. She was a curriculum specialist in charge of secondary social studies and law-related education for one of the country's largest school districts. Ellen is the author or coauthor of several books for educators, including Secrets for Secondary School Teachers: How to Succeed in Your First Year, On Being a Teacher, Secrets for Beginning Elementary School Teachers, Counseling Skills for Teachers, English Language Learners in Your Classroom: Strategies That Work, Secrets to Success for Science Teachers, and Students Who Drive You Crazy: Succeeding with Resistant, Unmotivated, and Otherwise Difficult Young People.

She teaches secondary education and supervises intern teachers at California State University, Fullerton.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corwin Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1412965284
• ISBN 13: 9781412965286
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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