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How to Handle the Hard-to-Handle Student, K-5

By: Maryln Appelbaum

Over 100 practical and effective interventions for helping hard-to-handle students succeed in the classroom and grow toward independence!

This user-friendly resource is packed with easy-to-implement strategies for a variety of behavioral challenges, from blurting out, tattling, and talking back to bullying, attention-deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), autism, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and Tourette syndrome. 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

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Grade Level: PreK-5
ISBN: 9781412964395
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2008
Page Count: 136
Publication date: August 19, 2008

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"Maryln Appelbaum is one of the most influential and helpful educators I know. This is a wonderful and insightful book for all educators who work with and care about children."
—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.

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 Students With ADHD

ADHD Inattentive Type

ADHD Hyperactive-Impulsive Type

Both ADHD Inattentive and ADHD Hyperactive-Impulsive Types

2. How to Handle Students With Learning Disabilities

Strategies for Succeeding With Students With LD

A Concluding Story

3. How to Handle Anger and Oppositional Defiant Disorder

The Stages of Anger and Strategies for Each Stage

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)

4. How to Handle Bullying

Strategies for Understanding and Handling Bullying

5. How to Handle Students With Bipolar Disorder

Strategies for Succeeding With Students With Bipolar Disorder

6. How to Handle Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Strategies for Succeeding With Students With ASD

7. How to Handle Students With Asperger Syndrome

Strategies for Succeeding With Students With AS

8. How to Handle Students With Tourette's Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Characteristics of Tourette's Syndrome (TS)

Characteristics of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Psychological Consequences of TS and OCD

Strategies for Succeeding With Students With TS and OCD

9. How to Handle Students 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

Conclusion

References

Index

Reviews

“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. The strategies are practical, down to earth, and useable. With more students with disabilities being served in general education classrooms, as well as more opportunities for co-teaching, this book provides many strategies for meeting academic as well as behavioral needs.”

Jean Kueker, Professor Emeritus of Education, Our Lady of the Lake University
President, Learning Disabilities Association of Texas

“The most comprehensive resource I have found for providing teachers with a succinct description of what to expect from hard-to-handle students. This is a reference that should be at every teacher’s fingertips.”

Leslie Standerfer, Principal
Estrella Foothills High School, Goodyear, AZ

"Essential for teachers and parents of all curricular and age levels. The topics covered are those that are often overlooked and/or misunderstood."

Angela Clinton, Teacher
George T. Daniel Elementary School, Kent, WA

“Maryln Appelbaum is one of the most influential and helpful educators I know. This is a wonderful and insightful book for all educators who work with and care about children.”

Richard L. Curwin, Author
Discipline With Dignity and Making Good Choices

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