In the second edition of this valuable resource, Allen Mendler offers both time-tested and newly developed strategies for how to reignite enthusiasm in even the most unmotivated students. Educators gain fresh ideas on how to integrate social-emotional development into daily classroom instruction, use technology and digital tools to enhance learning, and reduce the anxiety students feel in our ever-changing education environment.

• Understand why students might be unmotivated in class and learn how to boost student engagement.
• Examine the beliefs and five key processes for guiding and inspiring unmotivated students.
• Learn about the importance of emphasizing effort in the classroom.
• Learn how to build strong, trusting teacher-student relationships.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Emphasize Effort
Chapter 2: Create Confidence and Hope
Chapter 3: Value Involvement and Influence
Chapter 4: Build Relationships
Chapter 5: Spark Enthusiasm for Learning
Epilogue: Don't Give Up!
References and Resources
Index

A typical classroom includes students of considerable behavioral diversity, and maintaining classroom focus is often dependent upon successfully managing disruptive moments. In Power Struggles: Successful Techniques for Educators (Second Edition), authors Allen N. Mendler and Brian D. Mendler provide many different strategies to deal with all levels of difficult and resistant students. Drawing from years of experience, they help teachers understand the root causes of misbehavior and offer practical, step-by-step instructions on how to defuse situations in a way that protects the dignity of all involved and keeps the lesson on track.

Introduction to the Second Edition

When Kids Push Our Buttons

Prevention Strategies

Intervention Strategies

Defusing Strategies

Challenge Strategies

Power Struggle Scenarios

This second edition includes:

• Activities throughout to provide guidance
• Easy-to-learn methods of effective intervention
• Real-world stories of these strategies in action

Are you overwhelmed by unruly students, difficult parents, and never-ending classroom distractions? Are you tired of scavenging and pleading for basic school supplies? Do you wonder if anyone notices or cares how much effort you put into teaching every day? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you.

When Teaching Gets Tough offers practical strategies you can use to make things better right away. Veteran educator Allen Mendler organizes the discussion around four core challenges:

* Managing difficult students

* Working with unappreciative and irritating adults

* Making the best of an imperfect environment

* Finding time to take top-notch care of yourself

When Teaching Gets Tough is there when you need help to reclaim and sustain your energy and enthusiasm for teaching. Written with a deep understanding of the issues that teachers face every day, the book also includes sections for administrators who want to help teachers stay at the top of their game.

Allen Mendler is an educator and school psychologist and the author of Connecting with Students and co-author of Discipline with Dignity, 3rd edition

Raising Great Kids in a Chaotic World: A Guide for Parents and Educators is a resource that offers guidance to the full spectrum of challenges that adults face in raising and teaching children.

Raising Great Kids in a Chaotic World: A Handbook of Strategies, Examples, and Suggestions for Educators and Parentsis a practical resource of tips that parents and educators can use to help kids acquire, practice and/or correct behaviors that are needed to become responsible and successful adults. It offers a broad range of strategies that emphasize:

• how to teach and model the values and attitudes of success
• how to talk effectively so kids will listen
• how to anticipate possible consequences before acting
• how to equip children and teenagers with skills they can use if they feel anxious, overwhelmed, bullied, or faced with difficult challenges

In this quick reference guide, experts Allen N. Mendler and Brian D. Mendler discuss Discipline with Dignity, an approach intended to help children make better choices and teachers be more effective. Motivating and Managing Student Behavior with Dignity covers

- The attitudes and beliefs underlying Discipline with Dignity
- 6 keys to changing behavior
- 7 ways to prevent behavior problems
- The difference between formal and informal discipline
- Teaching responsibility and caring

This guide provides the structure and strategies to more effectively interact with students who misbehave so that teachers can establish a classroom in which mutual respect is the norm.

8.5 x 11 3-panel foldout guide (6 pages), laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.