In Dr. Ross Green Character Analysis

In today’s educational field we tend to lose and forget about the children with behavioral challenges. Many educators believe that they are disrespectful, out of control and beyond any type of help, (they just want attention). In reality, this is not true, there are ways for us as teachers, administrators, and parents to help these children and learn that sometimes they do not have these behavioral challenges because they want to but because they do not have the skills to deal with everyday challenges and adjustments. These children just see the black and white and nothing in between. In Dr. Ross Green’s book, he explains a different type of framework that can be used to help these students as well as teachers, administrations and parents on …show more content…
Greene’s story there are many characters but the main character is Joey, a middle school student with severe behavior problems both at school and at home. The teachers, administrators and even the mother are at their wits end when it comes to dealing with Joey. Dr. Bridgeman, the new school psychologist, brings to the table a new way to work with Joey, and any of the other students that have similar issues. He explains the ALSUP and how it can be used to help these students. He explains “Plan B”, which is exactly that a plan to figure out how to help these students. He explains that you need to include the students in the plan and have them help you come up with a plan where they can feel that their opinion matters. Throughout the story he explains that not everyone is willing to learn how to use this process but if more people use it and show results that it is working then maybe it will help others. Although in the story they have their obstacles and it does take work from everyone involved they can see that what they are working for is slowly working and everyone is making a difference, including Joey. Towards the end of the story, even Mr. Middleton, the school’s assistant principal, is asking Joey’s teacher, Mrs. Woods to present their triumphs at the next faculty …show more content…
Greene truly cares about finding another way to help the students that have these behavioral challenges. He wants us to understand that children do well if they can, not if they want to. Not every student that has behavioral issues wants to be bad; they just don’t have the skills to do what is expected of them. But then on the other hand, the book’s weakness described above is something that I feel Dr. Greene did not consider when writing this book. Now a days in the educational system, academics is the most important thing,(not that this is what teachers want but what is expected from them). Maybe eventually these two will coincide but for now and how he describes his approach that is not