Succeeding With Difficult Students: New Strategies for Reaching Your Most Challenging Students, Jan/2011

Turn your students’ lives around and reduce your own stress with practical techniques that focus on building positive relationships and shaping constructive classroom behavior. This book offers strategies for meeting the needs of difficult students and teaching lifelong interpersonal skills. Learn to identify when and why a student misbehaves, and develop a behavior plan based on the students special needs.

1. Rebuild broken trust, and develop positive relationships with even the most challenging students.
2. Increase student self-esteem by focusing on appropriate behavior.
3. Develop proactive rather than reactive responses to student behavior.
4. Use intervention strategies to limit confrontations and office referrals.

Successfully defuse confrontational or controlling behaviors

About The Author:
Lee Canter is a world-renowned expert on classroom management. His acclaimed Assertive Discipline® program has been the gold standard in the field since it was first published in 1976. Lee continues to develop cutting-edge coaching and training focused on establishing safe and orderly school environments that support closing achievement gaps. Known as one of the most dynamic speakers and trainers in education today, he has keynoted countless conferences and has been a frequent guest on noted television programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, and Good Morning America.

Cofounder of Canter and Associates, Lee has written more than 40 books and training programs for educators. In addition, he is known for developing one of the most successful distance learning master’s programs for educators. Lee and his associates have trained more than one million teachers worldwide in his Assertive Discipline® programs.

Lee earned a bachelor’s degree in history from California State University, Northridge and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern California.