Teaching Problem Students
Jere Brophy(Author)
Guilford Publications (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 24. September 1996
Book
Hardback
466 pages
978-1-57230-144-3 (ISBN)
Description
This uniquely practical resource and text focuses on how teachers and school practitioners can improve the academic skills, attitudes, and coping abilities of students with behavior and adjustment problems. Presented are findings from the Classroom Strategy Study, which identifies widely used classroom management strategies that work--and those that don't work--for addressing a wide range of specific challenges in the elementary and middle grades. Integrating his own research with the relevant developmental and educational psychology literature, Jere Brophy provides detailed guidance for meeting the needs of individual students while maintaining an effective, supportive learning environment for the whole class.
Reviews / Votes
An innovative, thoughtful, and theoretically grounded text that would be helpful to both beginning and experienced teachers. Current efforts to relate teacher preparation to classroom environments through interactions with classroom teachers in professional development settings would benefit greatly from this text. The problems Brophy selects as his focal points for improving classroom teaching are real, compelling problems faced by all teachers in all environments. The research base for his work is most impressive, and the melding of theory and practice throughout the text is a major strength. This text makes an important contribution to the field. --Leigh Chiarelott, PhD, Bowling Green State UniversityTeachers will rush to read Jere Brophy's long-awaited Teaching Problem Students. In this remarkably helpful book, drawn from the findings of the Classroom Strategy Study, Brophy addresses 12 types of problem behavior commonly exhibited by students which reflect difficulties with achievement, relationships with teachers and peers, and student role. Utilizing the responses of identified expert and average teachers as well as principles derived from empirical research and treatment theory, he walks the reader through the diagnostic process and describes successful intervention strategies as well as longer term preventive practices. The value of this book lies in the recognizability of these students, in the voices of a broad range of teachers, and in the rarely integrated literature on effective interventions with different types of student problems. Because successful approaches are presented alongside of defeating strategies, readers are literally forced to re-examine their own thinking and actions. Teaching Problem Students will hopefully sensitize teachers to the underlying roots of student problem behaviors and encourage more differentiated and ultimately more effective ways to facilitate student learning and development in the classroom. --Rhona Weinstein, PhD, Dept of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley
- A compendium of the best of educational research and wisdom regarding instruction of problem students....Would be an excellent primary or secondary text for classroom management and could serve as the basis of inservice training or teaching study groups. --Intervention In School and Clinic, 7/31/2003?? This book is not merely a general strategy that promises to solve all of your classroom management problems. Instead, it is an all-inclusive set of descriptions of specific types of problem students and effective strategies that teachers can use to manage and cope with specific problems. I classify Teaching Problem Students as a necessary resource for teachers in today's complicated classrooms. --The Science Teacher, 7/31/2003
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
806 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57230-144-3 (9781572301443)
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Teaching Problem Students
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Jere Brophy, PhD, is University Distinguished Professor of Teacher Education and formerly Codirector of the Institute for Research on Teaching at Michigan State University, East Lansing. He has published widely on teacher expectations, teacher effectiveness, classroom management, student motivation, and other topics in educational psychology and research on teaching.
Content
I. General Principles and Techniques for Managing Classrooms and Coping with Problem Students
1. Choosing to Work with Problem Students and Creating a Context for Doing So Successfully
2. General Principles and Techniques for Socializing Students and Resolving Conflicts
3. Overview of Classroom Strategy Study
II. Students with Achievement Problems
4. Low-Achieving Students
5. Failure Syndrome Students
6. Overly Perfectionistic Students
7. Underachieving Students
III. Students with Hostility Problems
8. Hostile-Aggressive Students
9. Passive-Aggressive Students
10. Defiant Students
IV. Students with Role-Adjustment Problems
11. Hyperactive Students
12. Distractible Students
13. Immature Students
V. Students with Social Relationship Problems
14. Students Rejected by Their Peers
15. Shy/Withdrawn Students
VI. Conclusion
16. Looking Back--and Ahead
Appendix A. The Classroom Strategy Study
1. Choosing to Work with Problem Students and Creating a Context for Doing So Successfully
2. General Principles and Techniques for Socializing Students and Resolving Conflicts
3. Overview of Classroom Strategy Study
II. Students with Achievement Problems
4. Low-Achieving Students
5. Failure Syndrome Students
6. Overly Perfectionistic Students
7. Underachieving Students
III. Students with Hostility Problems
8. Hostile-Aggressive Students
9. Passive-Aggressive Students
10. Defiant Students
IV. Students with Role-Adjustment Problems
11. Hyperactive Students
12. Distractible Students
13. Immature Students
V. Students with Social Relationship Problems
14. Students Rejected by Their Peers
15. Shy/Withdrawn Students
VI. Conclusion
16. Looking Back--and Ahead
Appendix A. The Classroom Strategy Study