ED389390 PS023501
Title: Elementary Teachers' Perceptions of and Reported Strategies
for Coping with Twelve Types of Problem Students.
Author(s): Brophy, Jere
Pages: 735
Publication Date: June 1995
Sponsoring Agency: Spencer Foundation, Chicago, IL. (BBB06744)@Michigan
State Univ., East Lansing. Inst. for Research on Teaching. (BBB15214)@Department
of Education, Washington, DC. (EDD00001)
Contract No: 400-81-0014G-1074
Available from: EDRS Price MF04/PC30 Plus Postage.
Language: English
Document Type: Guides--Non-classroom (055)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Michigan
Journal Announcement: RIEAPR1996
Written primarily
for teachers who are expected or willing to invest significantly
in the socialization role along with their other teaching roles,
this report describes results of a classroom strategy study of how
elementary school teachers cope with problem students. The report
is divided into six parts. Part 1 discusses general principles and
techniques for managing classrooms and coping with problem students.
Its three chapters include: choosing to work with problem students
and creating a context for doing so successfully; general principles
and techniques for socializing students and resolving conflicts;
and teacher's ideas about coping with problem students. Part 2,
which contains four chapters, presents theory and research on coping
with low achieving students, failure syndrome students, overly perfectionistic
students, and underachieving students. Part 3, which contains three
chapters, discusses three types of students with hostility problems:
hostile-aggressive students; passive-aggressive students; and defiant
students. Part 4 discusses student role adjustment problems and
contains the following three chapters on types of students whose
behavioral characteristics make it difficult for them to act as
students are expected to act in most classrooms: hyperactive students;
distractable students; and immature students. Part 5 discusses problems
in students' social relationships and contains two chapters on students
whose problems lie primarily in their social interaction with peers:
students rejected by their peers, and shy/withdrawn students. Part
6, which contains the concluding chapter, looks at some of the main
findings of the Classroom Strategy Study, at events that have developed
since data collection that might affect their relevance, and at
teacher role issues introduced in the first chapter. Contains approximately
317 references. (HTH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement; Aggression; *Behavior Problems;
Classroom Environment; *Classroom Techniques; Elementary Education;
Extraversion Introversion; Individual Development; Interpersonal
Competence; Peer Relationship; Personality; Shyness; Social Development;
Social Isolation; *Socialization; Student Adjustment; *Student Problems;
Teacher Role; *Teacher Student Relationship
