Succeeding With Difficult Students: New Strategies for Reaching Your Most Challenging Students (What Principals Need to Know)

Turn your students' lives around and reduce your own stress with practical techniques that focus on building positive relationships and shaping constructive classroom behavior. This book offers strategies for meeting the needs of difficult students and teaching lifelong interpersonal skills. Learn to identify when and why a student misbehaves, and develop a behavior plan based on the students special needs.

Benefits:

• Rebuild broken trust, and develop positive relationships with even the most challenging students.
• Increase student self-esteem by focusing on appropriate behavior.
• Develop proactive rather than reactive responses to student behavior.
• Use intervention strategies to limit confrontations and office referrals.
• Successfully defuse confrontational or controlling behaviors.

Contents:
Section One: Reaching Out to Difficult Students
Chapter 1: Who Are Difficult Students?
Chapter 2: Building Trust
Chapter 3: Proactive vs. Reactive Responses
Chapter 4: Establishing Positive Relationships With Difficult Students

Section Two: Meeting the Special Needs of Difficult Students
Chapter 5: Identifying the Primary Needs of Difficult Students
Chapter 6: Teaching Appropriate Behavior
Chapter 7: Providing Positive Support
Chapter 8: Redirecting Nondisruptive Off-Task Behavior
Chapter 9: Decreasing Disruptive Behavior

Section Three: Communicating With Difficult Students
Chapter 10: Defusing Confrontations
Chapter 11: One-to-One Problem-Solving

Section Four: Additional Strategies
Chapter 12: Additional Strategies: Individualized Behavior Plans
Part One--Classroom Plans
Part Two--Home-School Plans
Part Three--Administrator Plans