Students Who Drive You Crazy : Succeeding with Resistant, Unmotivated, and Otherwise Difficult Young People.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1 - Why Do Some Students Drive You Crazy? -- At a Loss about What to Do -- Eye of the Beholder -- So, Who Gets to You? -- Chapter 2 - Which Students Challenge You Most? -- Students from Hell -- Profiles of Students Who are Difficult -- Placing Actions in Context -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 4 - What Students Do to Make You Crazy -- Separating Students and Behavior -- Protecting Yourself -- Pushing Our Buttons -- How Do You Know When a Student is Driving You Crazy? -- How Failure Helps -- Engaging the Challenging Student -- Recognizing Your Limitations -- Don't Take the Conflict Personally -- It Comes with the Territory -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 6 - Strategies for Improving Students' Behavior -- Some Rules of Engagement -- Develop a Sense of Community -- Hold Class Meetings -- Maintain a Learning Evironment -- Use Counseling Skills -- Collaborate with others -- Brief Interventions -- When Things are Going Right -- Developing Alternate Perspectives -- Applications to other Situations -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 8 - Preventing Future Problems -- Proactive Versus Reactive Strategies.

Paying Attention to Feedback -- Teacher Strategies That Maintain Momentum -- Acknowledge Conflict -- Models of Resolution -- Peer Mediation -- Schoolwide Programs -- In Summary -- References and Suggested Readings -- Index.

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