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Students Who Drive You Crazy
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Students Who Drive You Crazy
Succeeding With Resistant, Unmotivated, and Otherwise Difficult Young People

Second Edition


September 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?
At a Loss About What to Do

 
Eye of the Beholder

 
So, Who Gets to You?

 
 
2. Which Students Challenge You Most?
Students From Hell

 
Profiles of Students Who Are Difficult

 
Placing Actions in Context

 
 
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

 
 
4. What Students Do to Make You Crazy
Separating Students and Behavior

 
Protecting Yourself

 
Pushing Our Buttons

 
How Failure Helps

 
Engaging the Challenging Student

 
Recognizing Your Limitations

 
Don't Take the Conflict Personally

 
It Comes With the Territory

 
 
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

 
 
6. Strategies for Changing Students' Behavior
Some Rules of Engagement

 
Develop a Sense of Community

 
Use Counseling Skills

 
Collaborate With Others

 
Brief Interventions

 
Develop Alternate Perspectives

 
 
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

 
 
8. Preventing Future Problems
Proactive Versus Reactive Strategies

 
Paying Attention to Feedback

 
Teacher Strategies That Maintain Momentum

 
Conflict Resolution

 
In Summary

 
 
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."

Bonnie Tryon, Principal
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."

Danielle Torres, Assistant Professor of School Counseling
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."

Katy Olweiler, Middle School Counselor
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."

David Roden, School Social Worker
School Social Work Journal, March 2011, Vol. 35, No. 2

Jeffrey A. Kottler

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... More About Author

Ellen Kottler

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 set­tings. 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... More About Author