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Funky wristband assessment
I have been creating some work that I demonstrated at Deanfield School in Wolverhapton last week. This strategy is great for all lessons but particularly active or pratical lessons where you don't want lots of extra bits of paper around. This is funky formative assessment. simple, quick, easy and the students love it.
Things I Wish I’d Known About Behaviour Management When I Started Teaching: Part 3
The Art of Winning Without Fighting
Habits, routines and cycles
A preview of my latest article for Teach Primary Magazine entitled 'The Teaching Performance". This edition of the magazine will be published for the Education Show in March....
Things I Wish I’d Known About Behaviour Management When I Started Teaching: Part 2
The lesson starts at the door
The language of choice
Some students will search for ways to have a confrontation. This could be for a number of reasons... to avoid work; perhaps to reinforce their own self image; or indeed because at times it can be fun to "lock horns with a teacher". In these instances students will seek to blame us or "take us on"...
Things I Wish I'd Known About Behaviour Management When I Started Teaching: Part 1
My views on managing children's behaviour have changed radically over the years. There are many reasons for this: having children of my own was highly significant. So was learning from teachers I admired, reading books on the subject and being fortunate enough to experience some very good in-service training.
Teaching routines
Happy New Year!
Here is an extract from an article published in the latest edition of Teach Nursery magazine.
Teach routines from the start. Don’t wait until poor habits become second nature before you try to intervene. Teach every child precisely how to treat you, how to treat others and how to treat the resources. Children and adults thrive on routines. The world is more consistent, more predictable and feels safer with routine. For children with behaviour related conditions, ADHD, Asperger’s, Autism the icons are essential hooks. They must be clear and impossible to misinterpret. You might try using photographs of the children demonstrating the behaviours that you want to see as your symbols. Reduce the symbols to stamp size and they can also be presented and collected. Through the ritual of reinforcement the routine is kept at the forefront of the fast paced mind of the toddler.