How to Handle the Hard-to-Handle Student, K-5
About this ebook
—Richard L. Curwin, Author
Discipline With Dignity and Making Good Choices
"This book provides interactive strategies that meet individual needs. The emphasis on believing in each student and making sure that the student knows this belief is extremely important."
—Jean Kueker, Professor Emeritus of Education, Our Lady of the Lake University
President, Learning Disabilities Association of Texas
Over 100 practical and effective interventions for helping hard-to-handle students succeed in the classroom and grow toward independence!
Today′s classrooms are filled with diverse learners, ranging from students who blurt out, tattle, or talk back to students with challenges such as anger, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), Asperger′s syndrome, and Tourette syndrome.
This resource is packed with more than 100 easy-to-implement strategies for a variety of behavioral challenges, making it easy to look up information for a specific situation, and also includes information on bullying. The author provides descriptions of disorders and strategies to help K–5 teachers recognize symptoms, understand children′s strengths and challenges, and promote students′ ability to:
- Develop problem-solving skills
- Handle their emotions
- Regulate their own behavior
- Learn in ways that meet their needs and those of the class
This invaluable resource is ideal for teachers in inclusive classrooms and serves as a quick reference for helping students practice appropriate behavior.
About the author
Maryln Appelbaum is well-known internationally as an outstanding authority on children, education, and families. She has worked as a teacher, an administrator, and a therapist and has been a consultant throughout the United States. She has written more than 30 how-to books geared exclusively for educators and parents. She has been interviewed on television and radio talks shows and has been quoted in newspapers including USA Today. She owns a seminar training company, Appelbaum Training Institute, with her son, Marty Appelbaum, and they and their speakers train educators all over the world. She has master’s degrees in both psychology and education and completed her doctoral studies in both education and psychology. Appelbaum′s influence impacts the entire globe with her thoughts for the day that go out to thousands of educators via e-mail daily. Her strategies have been implemented in schools across the world successfully. There is not a day that goes by that someone does not contact her at Appelbaum Training Institute to tell her “thank you.” Those “thank you’s” come from teachers, administrators, parents, and students whose lives have been impacted by Maryln. Appelbaum′s books and her talks are always packed with strategies for success. She is a positive, motivational, dynamic, caring, one-of-a-kind difference maker for the world.
