Teaching Children Who Are Hard to Reach

Create lasting, positive change for our most troubled students!

How do you move beyond traditional classroom management to create a learning environment that engages our hardest-to-reach students—students who may be struggling due to emotional disturbances or disabilities or environmental circumstances? Michael Marlowe and Torey Hayden have the answer: through a relationship-driven classroom. With the help of their book, you will:

• Gain a meaningful understanding of troubled students and how to reach and teach them effectively
• Learn how to change inappropriate behavior rather than just control it
• Become more reflective about teaching and learning with challenging children

Drawing on real-life stories, including some of those described in Torey Hayden′s bestselling books on working with troubled children, the authors shed new light on the challenges of working with hard-to-reach students and identify the key skills teachers need to build successful classroom relationships and facilitate learning for all.

"The authors have done a good job of putting ′method′ to relationship teaching and have the real-life background references to authenticate what is said."
—Sharon Jefferies, Teacher
Lakeville Elementary, Apopka, FL

"The case studies and research behind building relationships in classroom environments are major strengths, as is the myriad of methodology regarding discipline, identifying and managing troubled students, and how to decrease disruptions."
—Tara Howell, AP Science Teacher
University City High School, San Diego, CA

Mike Marlowe is a professor of special education at Appalachian State University in the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. He has also taught special education at the University of Wyoming and Tennessee Technological University. He specializes in coursework in emotional and behavioral disorders and classroom management. Prior to university teaching Mike taught children in classrooms for emotional and behavioral problems in the public schools of Indiana and Kentucky. He has also worked as a wilderness instructor in the Daniel Boone National Forest, as director of an alternative school, and as a community placement worker at a psychiatric hospital. He was inducted into the Order of Kentucky Colonels because of his work in special education. He is a member of the Council for Exceptional Children and the Council for Children’s Behavioral Disorders. Mike has published extensively and presented at state, national, and international conferences on Torey Hayden’s approach to teaching children with emotional and behavioral problems. Mike and his artist wife Susan have three children, who all live far away: Auckland, New Zealand, Los Angeles, and Denver. He enjoys nature, hiking with his yellow lab, Gracie, and an occasional round of golf. Questions or comments can be directed to marlowemj@appstate.edu. Born in Montana, USA, Torey Hayden has spent most of her adult life working with children in distress. Starting out as a special education teacher for children with emotional difficulties, she latterly moved into research and therapeutic intervention, specializing in psychogenic language disorders. Now living in Great Britain, she provides counseling and advice services for several child-oriented charities. Torey is author of several internationally best-selling books about her experiences as a teacher and a therapist, such as One Child, Ghost Girl and Just Another Kid. She also has written three novels and The Very Worst Thing, a story for eight- to twelve-year-olds.