Power Struggles: Successful Techniques for Educators

It's every educators worst fear: losing control of the classroom. Regain the focus of challenging and resistant students with this practical resource on classroom management, discipline, and motivation. The dedicated authors re-examine the root causes of student misbehavior and offer a range of easy-to-implement instructions and activities along with real-world stories of these strategies in action to prevent and defuse future disruptive classroom moments.

Benefits:

• Understand the hostility cycle and how to break it.
• Gain in-class and out-of-class strategies for relationship building.
• Find out ways defiant students can be successful in the classroom.
• Learn effective language for difficult or resistant students.
• Use an interest inventory to stay attuned to your students needs.

Contents:
Introduction: When Kids Push Our Buttons
Prevention Strategies
Intervention Strategies
Defusing Strategies
Challenge Strategies
Power Struggle Scenarios