Learn how to recognize and respond to red-flag behaviors in the classroom
Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classroom
Explosive. Anti-social. Passive-aggressive. Paranoid. Students with these and other types of troublesome personalities can quickly undermine a classroom atmosphere, and spoil the learning experience for everyone involved.
At best, these difficult students are a nuisance.
At worst they can put your entire campus at risk.
Explosive. Anti-social. Passive-aggressive. Students with these and other types of troublesome personalities can quickly undermine a class and spoil the learning experience for everyone involved. What’s more, these students can put others at risk with behaviors that in extreme cases can even result in fatalities, as evidenced by the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois universities.
Recognizing troublesome personality styles and knowing how to respond to them—you can get crucial insights on these and related topics during this seminar. Led by Dr. Gerald Amada, Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classroom will give you principles, guidelines and strategies so you can identify different disruptive personality styles and teach these students more effectively.
During this seminar, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the seven disruptive personality styles, which include the:
- Compulsive personality – characterized by being perfectionistic and expecting perfection and flawlessness from instructors and themselves.
- Explosive personality style – characterized by attributes that include abusive epithets, bullying, and physical or verbal threats.
- Anti-social personality style – usually characterized by behaviors that include cheating, stealing, forging or defrauding academic documents, contempt for the rights of others, and menacing and dangerous behavior toward others.
In addition to learning how to recognize and respond to various troublesome personality types, this insightful, content-rich seminar will enable you to:
- Identify “red flag” signals that indicate possible physical risk when dealing with frightening anti-social students.
- Better manage passive-aggressive behavioral styles such as sleeping in class, lateness and procrastination.
- Set standards, expectations and boundaries flexibly with students related to their personality styles.
- Understand essential principles for collaborating with on-campus resources to resolve disruptive crises.Understand when or whether to report incidents of disruption.
Dr. Amada has extensive experience with this subject and, for anyone who would like to better understand the different personality styles of disruptive college students and cope with these individuals more effectively, this is a superb opportunity.
Who will benefit from this seminar:
- Administrators
- Department Chairs
- Instructors
- Security Personnel
- Judicial Affairs Officers
- Counselors
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Dr. Gerald Amada has presented at more than 100 colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada on the subject of the disruptive college student for more than 20 years. He is the author of Coping with the Disruptive College Student: A Practical Model, Coping with Misconduct in the College Classroom: A Practical Model, and Mental Health and Student Conduct Issues on the College Campus: A Reading. He was a co-founder of the Mental Health Program at the City College of San Francisco. He is now retired after a 30-year career at the City College of San Francisco. He currently serves on the Education Committee of the Marin County, California, Human Rights Commission.