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Inconsistent or Just Differentiated
Inconsistent or Just Differentiated
Things I Wish I’d Known About Behaviour Management When I Started Teaching: Part 3
The Art of Winning Without Fighting
Things I Wish I’d Known About Behaviour Management When I Started Teaching: Part 2
The lesson starts at the door
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.
Attention Addiction
Here is a sneak preview of an article I have written for the latest edition of Child Education Plus entitled Attention Addiction. I thought that it might help stave off the 'hang 'em and flog 'em brigade a little while longer. Although I hear their angry thumping getting closer every day....
TES Article with Paul's contribution entitled 'Off-site pupil behaviour'
The issue - Off-site pupil behaviour
Girls' Behaviour and the Art of Looking Busy
Keeping under the teacher's radar is not a skill that some boys ever develop. In girls it can seem innate. Well-developed skills in the art of looking busy allow some girls to cruise along, avoiding work and fuelling disputes without being caught. While wriggly boys distract the teacher, the girls quickly realise that there is room to play. Sitting and pretending to listen comes easily to Chantelle. Like a stealth bomber she delivers her payload undetected. The fallout will be felt for some time to come."