Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Students

White Paper: Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classroom

At some point in your teaching career you are going to be faced with a disruptive—maybe even out-of-control—student. When that moment comes, will you know how to keep yourself, and the other students in class, safe?

In a perfect world, college students are always eager, well disciplined, and respectful.

In the real world, some students come to class late, miss deadlines, or fall asleep during lectures. Others monopolize class time, make insulting or abusive comments, and even physically threaten or intimidate other students and professors.

In extreme incidents, there is even the occasional student who poses a dangerous risk to the entire community.

Learn the most effective strategies for assessing and managing these and other classroom challenges with Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classroom. This exclusive white paper explains how to recognize typical styles of troublesome behavior and exactly what to do in response.

Based on a seminar by renowned college mental health counselor Dr. Gerald Amada, this 52-page white paper covers essential strategies for recognizing and containing a difficult situation in the classroom before things spin out of control.

This report takes the bewildering array of unacceptable student behaviors and classifies them into seven easy-to-recognize styles, along with recommended approaches suited to each type’s idiosyncrasies. The recommendations are based on Dr. Amada’s approaches drawn from his 30-year career in which he authored of eleven books and more than 100 articles and book reviews on the subjects of mental health and disruptive college students.

Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classroom delivers realistic, practical guidelines on:

Red flag behaviors that may portend violence
Dealing with passive-aggressive behaviors such as sleeping in class
When incidents should be reported
ADA compliance issues
Nuisances versus threats
Setting enforceable standards and expectations
When to call security
Due process requirements
Recognizing and managing physical risks
Handling rude, disrespectful students
When to allow extensions and when to refuse
Dealing with nonverbal resistance and under-the-breath comments

Cost

You can download the PDF of this white paper, or get the print version mailed to you.

Price per white paper for quantities up to:	1	2-10	11+
Print	$139	$129	$119
PDF Download	$99	$89	$79

A Campus Access License is available for an additional $200. It allows the purchasing institution to load the white paper onto the institution’s password-protected internal web site for unlimited access by members of the campus community.

Don’t allow misbehaving students to disrupt classes on your campus any longer. Get your copy of this important white paper.