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Students Who Drive You Crazy
Succeeding With Resistant, Unmotivated, and Otherwise Difficult Young People
Second Edition
- Jeffrey A. Kottler - California State University, Fullerton, USA
- Ellen Kottler - California State University, Fullerton, USA
November 2008 | 168 pages | Corwin
Students Who Drive You Crazy, Second Edition, provides educators with a model for assessing, understanding, and responding to their most challenging interactions at school, whether with students, parents, or colleagues. The book addresses some of the most difficult problems educators face today: gangs, violence, disrespect, addictions, verbal abuse, lack of motivation, and obtrusiveness. The author covers the kinds of conflicted relationships that occupy so much time and energy and that can often challenge an educator'sápersonal life as well as professional morale. In addition to synthesizing the theory and research on the subject of difficult student relationships, this resource presents interviews with practicing teachers, counselors, and school administrators and with current and former students were known to drive teachers crazy. All voices speak clearly about their sources of frustration and highlight the elements that made the greatest difference in overcoming obstacles. The updated edition features activities for professional development in each chapter to help readers extend and personalize the content; expanded discussion of the types of challenging student behaviours; additional tips for developing active listening skills to improve communication with students and parents; suggestions for creating caring communities in the classroom; a new section on dealing with aggressive and violent behaviour; information on understanding parent behaviour and suggestions for building positive connections with families; and additional tables and charts that summarize key points.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Why Do Some Students Drive You Crazy?
2. Which Students Challenge You Most?
3. Understanding Students' Challenging Behavior
4. What Students Do to Make You Crazy
5. Changing Your Own Behavior
6. Strategies for Changing Students' Behavior
7. Parents and Colleagues Who Drive You Crazy
8. Preventing Future Problems
References and Suggested Readings
Index
"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."
Golding Elementary School, Cobleskill, NY
"This book offers strategies, understanding, and hope for practicing educators who find themselves struggling with particular students on a daily basis and who want to reach out to students to help them reach their educational goals."
Lewis & Clark College
"The book is a compact overview of the equivalent of an entire college course, blending student psychology, classroom management, and introduction to counseling."
Lakeside School, Seattle, WA
"With its person-in-environment analysis and intervention model, this book is a good resource in the library of a school social worker. It allows for balanced and nuanced consideration of behavior and provides a framework for ethical and culturally competent practice."
School Social Work Journal, March 2011, Vol. 35, No. 2
