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Help! This Student is Completely Out of Control!
Dr. Ross Greene
English - January 09, 2017 20:30 - 44 minutes - 40 MB - ★★★★ - 28 ratingsEducation education school discipline accountability oppositional defian Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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If a student is highly volatile, unstable, reactive, and unsafe, there are a few things to bear in mind: (1) s/he didn't get that way overnight; (2) there must be many expectations the student is having difficulty meeting; (3) reducing those expectations -- Plan C -- is a very good way to get things stabilized; and (4) even if takes a lot of time and energy to stabilize that student, it's a lot less time and energy than that student is consuming when s/he's unstable.