Power Struggles: Successful Techniques for Educators

A typical classroom includes students of considerable behavioral diversity, and maintaining classroom focus is often dependent upon successfully managing disruptive moments. In Power Struggles: Successful Techniques for Educators (Second Edition), authors Allen N. Mendler and Brian D. Mendler provide many different strategies to deal with all levels of difficult and resistant students. Drawing from years of experience, they help teachers understand the root causes of misbehavior and offer practical, step-by-step instructions on how to defuse situations in a way that protects the dignity of all involved and keeps the lesson on track.

Chapters

Introduction to the Second Edition

When Kids Push Our Buttons

Prevention Strategies

Intervention Strategies

Defusing Strategies

Challenge Strategies

Power Struggle Scenarios

Benefits

This second edition includes:

• Activities throughout to provide guidance
• Easy-to-learn methods of effective intervention
• Real-world stories of these strategies in action

Author: Allen N. Mendler, Brian D. Mendler
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Solution Tree
Published: 09/15/2011
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781935543206
2nd Edition