Teaching Students with Emotional Disturbance: A Practical Guide for Every Teacher

by Bob Algozzine, Jim Ysseldyke

Valuable insight and sound intervention strategies for addressing the needs of students with social and emotional problems!When a student is inattentive, extremely anxious, or has an outright tantrum in the classroom, ascertaining the exact cause may be difficult, but it is a critical step in reaching and teaching the students who exhibit these behaviors. In Teaching Students With Emotional Disturbance, Ysseldyke and Algozzine show readers how to recognize the cognitive, academic, physical, communicational, and behavioral characteristics of several forms of emotional disturbance and offer specific strategies for responding to anxiety issues, opposition and noncompliance, tantrums, disruptiveness, inattention, task avoidance, and more.Highlights • A pretest and posttest to help readers assess their understanding about the origins of social and emotional difficulties and how they are best addressed• Effective interventions and instructional adaptations for students who have emotional problems• Trends and issues currently influencing how students with social and emotional problems are taught• Key vocabulary termsThe authors offer a wealth of information and resources so that teachers can better identify the needs of students with emotional disturbance and help them succeed in the classroom.

114 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 21, 2006

Reviews

[Danielle · Rating 1 out of 5]

I picked up this book as I work with students with emotional and behavioral disabilities (and Autism Spectrum/Multiple Disabilities) It is a short read, only 56 pages when you do not include the appendix of resources. I thought it might give me some ideas to work with my K-1 students, but the information was so basic I did not find it useful or new. I am always reading many sources related to education, particularly early childhood and special education. This book missed the mark. It said in the synopsis that it would share strategies, but the strategies were so basic and did not give information on how to implement them (such as taking behavior data, using active ignoring etc.) It could have been a great pocket guide of strategies, but it just missed the mark and read more like a basic definitions book.

[Connor Dolan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another book I read for work!
This is a fairly minimalist introduction to Emotional Disturbances. It doesn't really do anything novel or noteworthy, more of a handy reference material for further investigation. In fact, the text itself is only about 60 pages. The rest are just resources, glossary, etc.
Talk about bare bone.