Behaviour Management – Getting things Right

Have we got the balance right between teaching and learning and behaviour management? If student behaviour if one of the great stressors in our profession then let’s spend the time to get it ‘right’ and not look for a quick fix or search for the silver bullets. Managing classroom behaviour needs a long-term approach that is based on an integrated model of best practice and is explicit. Being explicit means you know consciously what you do, you know why you do it, and you can measure if it is effective….or not. If this sounds like what you might be interested in then read on.

Behaviour management has become more challenging as our world and the life of children has become more complex. It is confusing to find a common approach that all teachers can agree to and the number of books, manuals, and workshops that focus on behaviour management, student discipline, and classroom relationships is growing by the minute.

We hope that these 3 x sessions start the process to build your own model so that positive behaviours can be encouraged leading to improved learning outcomes. These sessions, whether you do one or all them or not are designed to provide you with a concrete foundation to start designing, adapting, and blending a wide range of behaviour management approaches that are intended to provide a safe and productive classroom.

Getting it right – to get it right we need to reflect on the history of behaviour management or we will remain on the hamster wheel and continue to repeat the same mistakes. An example of this would be if your school still runs ‘detentions’, withdraws a ‘privilege’ for poor behaviour or teachers are shouting and using shame as a way to address behaviour. This session will help you understand the meaning of terms like fairness and discipline and set up to be more explicit when describing a positive teacher-student relationship. Best of all this session will ask you to develop your own set of classroom expectations or agreements and know what to do to establish classroom relationships.