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Dealing with Difficult Students:

Practical Strategies for Success with Defiant, Defeated and other At-Risk Kids

Presentation by Jane Bluestein, Ph.D.

We all know who they are: The unmotivated student who performs below his capabilities. The student with weak social skills who has a hard time getting along with her peers. The nontraditional learner who has a hard time with the academic demands of the classroom. The disruptive student whose misbehaviors and bad attitude make our work even more difficult. The quiet child who fades into the woodwork. The one who can’t stay awake in class. Suspicious kids. Defensive kids. Indifferent kids. And kids who want to do well but just can’t seem to get it together.

This program offers dozens of effective, classroom-proven strategies to help you reach a wide range of students— all the while minimizing stress in the classroom environment! Learn simple, practical ways to avoid power struggles, defuse conflict and in-your-face challenges, engage kids who have all but given up, eliminate passivity and helplessness, improve parent involvement and support, and build student responsibility, commitment and self-management.

Topics include creating win-win authority relationships, making success possible for all students, accommodating a wide range of learning behaviors and academic abilities, making a connection, increasing positivity, changing the school culture, supporting the needs of non-traditional learners and putting the fun back in teaching!

These are techniques that can work with all kids at any grade level, but are especially appropriate for students who are particularly challenging.

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