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How to Handle Hard-to-Handle Preschoolers

A Guide for Early Childhood Educators

By: Maryln Appelbaum

This book illustrates strategies for managing behavioral challenges and helping young children learn positive behavior, emotional skills, problem solving, and how to succeed in class and everyday life.

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Grade Level: PreK-PreK
ISBN: 9781412970037
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2009
Page Count: 136
Publication date: January 06, 2009

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"All children will benefit from these activities; all they need is a good teacher's imagination!"
—Lois Wachtel, CEO and President
Creative Beginning Steps Early Childhood Workshops

"A fun and interesting read that is filled with helpful ideas to implement in the PreK classroom!"
—Jill J. Simmons-Stemple, Preschool Teacher
Upshur County Schools/Head Start, Buckhannon, WV

Discover the key to better management of children's challenging behaviors!

This user-friendly resource provides early childhood educators with a comprehensive overview of the most common kinds of behavioral disorders and learning disabilities in children ages 2 to 5, with guidelines for meeting students' needs within an inclusive environment.

This ready-to-go guide is packed with hundreds of easy-to-implement strategies, tips, and techniques for managing behavioral disorders—from ADHD to Tourette's syndrome. Each chapter covers one or more disorders and includes a wealth of checklists to help teachers succeed with and understand hard-to-handle children. The author illustrates ways to help young children learn how to:

Develop the ability to regulate their own behavior
Solve problems
Replace negative behaviors with positive ones
Handle their emotions appropriately
Succeed in the classroom and in everyday life

How to Handle Hard-to-Handle Preschoolers empowers teachers with the tools necessary for transforming a negative, disruptive classroom into a positive environment for learning.

Author(s)

Maryln Appelbaum

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Foreword by Marty Appelbaum

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. How to Handle Children Who Are Disruptive

Skill One: How to Handle Tattling

Skill Two: How to Handle Complaining

Skill Three: How to Handle Constant Chatter

Skill Four: How to Handle Blurting Out

Skill Five: How to Handle Talking Back

Skill Six: How to Handle Power Struggles

Skill Seven: How to Handle Student Conflicts

2. How to Handle Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

ADHD Inattentive Type

ADHD Hyperactive-Impulsive Type

Both ADHD Inattentive and ADHD Hyperactive-Impulsive Types

3. How to Handle Children With Learning Disabilities

Strategies for Succeeding With Children With LD

A Concluding Story

4. How to Handle Anger and Oppositional Defiant Disorder

The Stages of Anger and Strategies for Each Stage

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)

5. How to Handle Bullying

Recognizing Bullying

Strategies for Understanding and Handling Bullying

6. How to Handle Children With Bipolar Disorder

What Is Bipolar Disorder?

Strategies for Succeeding With Children With Bipolar Disorder

7. How to Handle Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

What Is Autism Spectrum Disorder?

Strategies for Succeeding With Children With ASD

8. How to Handle Children With Asperger Syndrome

Characteristics of Asperger Syndrome

Strategies for Succeeding With Children With AS

9. How to Handle Children With Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Characteristics of Tourette Syndrome (TS)

Characteristics of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Psychological Consequences of TS and OCD

Strategies for Succeeding With Children With TS and OCD

Conclusion

References

Index

Reviews

"The activities mentioned in this book are priceless and can easily be adapted to every classroom. All children will benefit from them; all they need is a good teacher’s imagination!"

Lois Wachtel, CEO and President
Creative Beginning Steps Early Childhood Workshops

"This book would be an asset to any teacher’s professional library. It offers in-depth descriptions of several conditions that affect behavior and offers excellent and varied strategies for assisting those students."

Pamela L. Opel, Science Curriculum Specialist
Gulfport School District, MS

“A fun and interesting read that is filled with helpful ideas to implement in the preK classroom!”

Jill J. Simmons-Stemple, Preschool Teacher
Upshur County Schools/Head Start, Buckhannon, WV

“This book is worthwhile for the new teacher or veteran of many years. With clear explanations of each problem area, as well as many personal stories from the author’s experiences, interesting strategies are offered for the teacher to use.”

Sandra Kraynok, Kindergarten Teacher
Rock Cave Elementary School, Rock Cave, WV

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