Teaching Students With Emotional Disturbance

Learn how emotional disturbance impacts learning and gain strategies for responding to anxiety issues, opposition and noncompliance, tantrums, disruptiveness, inattention, task avoidance, and more.

Bob Algozzine is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina and project codirector of the U.S. Department of Education-supported Behavior and Reading Improvement Center. With 25 years of research experience and extensive firsthand knowledge of teaching students classified as seriously emotionally disturbed, Algozzine is a uniquely qualified staff developer, conference speaker, and teacher of behavior management and effective teaching courses. He is active in special education practice as a partner and collaborator with professionals in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in North Carolina and as an editor of several journals focused on special education. Algozzine has written more than 250 manuscripts on special education topics, including many books and textbooks on how to manage emotional and social behavior problems.

About A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Self-Assessment I
Introduction to Teaching Students With Emotional Disturbance
1.What Is Emotional Disturbance?
What You May See in Your Classroom
What Assessments Will Tell You
2.What Should Every Teacher Know About Teaching Students With Emotional Problems?
Anxiety
Opposition and Noncompliance
Temper Tantrums
3.What Should Every Teacher Know About Teaching Students With Social Problems?
Disruptiveness
Nonattention
Irrelevant Activities
Task Avoidance
4.What Trends and Issues Influence How We Teach Students With Emotional Disturbance?
An Evolving Definition
Medical Treatment
5. Emotional Disturbance in Perspective
6. What Have We Learned?
Key Points
More About Emotional Disturbance in the Classroom
Key Vocabulary
Self-Assessment II
Answer Key for Self-Assessments
On Your Own
Resources
Books
Journals & Articles
Organizations
References
Index