How to Deal With Teachers Who Are Angry, Troubled, Exhausted, or Just Plain Confused

by Elaine K. McEwan

• ISBN13: 9780761938187
• ISBN10: 0761938184
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

Use Assertive Intervention techniques to help difficult teachers become positive and energetic professionals! How to Deal With Teachers Who are Angry, Troubled, Exhausted, or Just Plain Confused is an indispensable handbook for educators hoping to manage, shape, and improve teacher behaviors with the ultimate goal of improving student achievement and performance. This resource offers case studies from principals who have successfully managed dysfunctional and low-performing teachers, scripts for achieving effective communication, and a culture-buildera??s toolkit with exercises and assessments. In this research-based text, best-selling author Elaine McEwan introduces a new approach-Assertive Intervention-for dealing with a principal's most pressing challenge: How to manage difficult teachers effectively while empowering them as professionals. Assertive Intervention strategies show administrators, staff developers and mentors how to: Confront difficult teachers with calm and confidence Conduct an Assertive Intervention meeting Energize and motivate teachers Significantly improve interactions with troubled teachers Build a positive school culture This invaluable tool provides practical tools that can be put into practice immediately, and can be used with classroom teachers across all levels.

Table of Contents

Preface

Who This Book Is For

Special Features of the Book

Overview of the Contents

A Matter of Definition

A Cautionary Note

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Principals: How to Deal With Difficult Teachers

Seven Habits for Dealing Positively With Difficult Teachers

Summing Up

How to Conduct an Assertive Intervention: Tell It Like It Is

The Critical Attributes of Assertive Intervention

The Three Stages of Assertive Intervention

How to Conduct Assertive Intervention

Summing Up

Strategies for Dealing With Angry, Hostile, or Just Plain Tiresome Teachers

Understanding Angry Teachers

What Works and What Doesn't?

Kinds of Angry Teachers

How to Deal With Angry Teachers

A Case Study: The Critical and Mean-Spirited Teacher

Summing Up

Strategies for Dealing With Teachers Who Are Temporarily Troubled, Mentally Disordered, or Are in Trouble With the Law

Characteristics of Teachers Who Are Temporarily Troubled

Characteristics of Teachers With Mental Disorders

Characteristics of Teachers Who Are in Trouble With the Law

How to Deal With Teachers Who Are Temporarily Troubled

How to Deal With Teachers Who Have Mental Disorders

How to Deal With Teachers Who Are in Trouble With the Law

Summing Up

Strategies for Dealing With Teachers Who Are Exhausted, Stressed, or Burned Out

A Principal's Perspective

Sources of Energy

Factors That Sap Personal Energy

Characteristics of Exhausted Teachers

How Administrators Sap Their Teachers' Energies

How to Deal With an Exhausted School

Summing Up

Strategies for Dealing With Teachers Who Are Confused, Marginal, or Just Plain Incompetent

Characteristics of Instructionally Challenged Teachers

How to Deal With Instructionally Challenged Teachers

Summing Up

Sixty Ways to Affirm, Energize, and Empower Teachers

Conclusion

The Communicator's A-Z Handbook

The Culture-Builder's Toolkit

References

Index

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