ABSTRACT

This book provides tips and strategies to help school leaders improve, neutralize, or eliminate resistant and negative teachers. Learn how to handle staff members who gossip in the teacher's lounge, consistently say "it won't work" when any new idea is suggested, send an excessive number of student to your office for disciplinary reasons, undermine your efforts toward school improvement, or negatively influence other staff members. Don’t miss the revised and expanded third edition of this best-seller!

part |27 pages

The Principal and the Difficult Teacher

chapter |8 pages

What Is a Difficult Teacher?

chapter |11 pages

Three Kinds of Teachers

chapter |5 pages

The Role of the Principal

part |18 pages

Motivating Difficult Teachers

part |42 pages

Making Difficult Teachers Uncomfortable

part |28 pages

Communicating with the Difficult Teacher

chapter |5 pages

Approach Them When You Are Ready

chapter |6 pages

The Best Teacher, Worst Teacher Test

chapter |7 pages

Focus on Eliminating Behaviors

chapter |6 pages

Questioning Strategies

part |25 pages

Weakening the Influence of Difficult Teachers

chapter |17 pages

No More Party Poopers!

chapter |5 pages

Sometimes You Have to Shuffle the Deck

part |8 pages

The Role of New Faculty

chapter |3 pages

What About the New Kids?

chapter |2 pages

New Teacher Leadership

part |20 pages

Eliminating Difficult Teachers

chapter |5 pages

Where Do I Start?

chapter |5 pages

Retirement and Other Miracles

chapter |6 pages

Dismissal

part |12 pages

General Tips and Guidelines

part |29 pages

Strategy Session

chapter |6 pages

Intentional or Unaware?

chapter |6 pages

30 Going On 13

chapter |12 pages

Action Plan

chapter |3 pages

There Is No One Else