Power Teaching Challenging Teens

Christopher Biffie, 2007 - 225 pages.
All across the country, in fact all around the world, many of our teaching colleagues go home, night after night, frustrated, tired, weary of struggling with challenging students. Let's face it. We became teachers because we loved to teach. Who enters our profession eager to combat rebellious students?
Perform this thought experiment. Tomorrow, something in the air makes all challenging students less challenging. Not only would teacher morale instantly improve, but also test scores would rise. Too many instructors are putting the majority of their energy into corralling the attention of a handful of students. Thousands of our gifted colleagues leave our profession not because they hate teaching, but because they love it and are beaten down by fighting a few kids in the back row.