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Make the most of the free resources

June 22nd, 2010 No Comments

Hi everyone, I have been looking through our stats and noticed that many of you aren’t accessing the free classroom management tips reports and resources we have made available. Just in case you’re not aware of the free areas on our website I’ll list them below. Between now and the Autumn term I’m going to [...]

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Making Time to Build Relationships With Students

June 15th, 2010 2 Comments

Continuing with our series on Building Positive relationships with students today’s post is in answer to one of the most common objections which comes up when we talk about this subject… “I’m a busy teacher, I don’t have time to build relationships with challenging students?” The answer to that is “You don’t have time NOT [...]

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Five Ways to Discover Student Interests

June 14th, 2010 2 Comments

We are determined to keep the blog going in the way we originally planned – with useful, helpful information – so Rob has instructed me to continue with the ‘Stepping Stones to Positive Teacher/Student Relationships’ series. Remember, if you didn’t download your process map for this series you can get one here… http://www.behaviourneeds.com/resources In the [...]

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Stepping Stones to Positive Relationships (Part 6)

May 18th, 2010 4 Comments

Hi, Just to re-cap… We are currently working our way through some ideas for building relationships with challenging students. To help keep us all on track I produced a ‘Stepping Stones’ process map which we are all following. We are following it aren’t we? If you didn’t download yours you can get one here… http://www.behaviourneeds.com/resources [...]

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Stepping Stones to Positive Relationships

May 17th, 2010 No Comments

Let’s have a few more relationship-building, behaviour management strategies before we move on to Stepping Stone 3… 7. Empower them …give them problem-solving skills: We can show caring for a student by empowering them with skills to overcome their difficulties. I often use the example of a student who seldom, if ever, hands in homework. [...]

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Stepping Stones to Positive Relationships (Part 4)

May 16th, 2010 2 Comments

Ok, here are a few more: 5. Continuing with our ‘written word’ theme… … go a step further than saying ‘Happy Birthday’ – make them feel special -  send a card (posting it home gets bonus points) …go a step further than marking them absent on the register – send a card. …when they do [...]

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Stepping Stones to Positive Relationships (Part 3)

May 12th, 2010 9 Comments

Hi again, Let’s get to the first of the strategies. We’re up to Stepping Stone 2 – ‘Best Relationship Builders’. There will be quite a lot coming so I wouldn’t bother filling in the sheet just yet – wait until you’ve seen them all and then pick your favourites.(If you haven’t downloaded your ‘Stepping Stones [...]

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Stepping Stones to Positive Relationships (Part 2)

May 11th, 2010 4 Comments

Hi everybody, Once again, thanks for all your comments. Clearly this is a very popular subject so let’s get started… First things first: If you go to our main site, you can download the desktop reminder. (It’s called ‘Stepping Stones to Positive Relationships’) You can get it here: http://www.behaviourneeds.com/resources We’ll work through the various Stepping [...]

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Stepping Stones to Positive Relationships (Part1)

May 9th, 2010 270 Comments

Hi, Over the next week or so I’m going to post a series of tips and strategies for building and maintaining relationships with your students. This is, without doubt one of the most effective behaviour management strategies/teaching tools at your disposal – students are obviously more likely to behave for a teacher they respect, trust [...]

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Free Report – behaviour interventions

April 11th, 2010 4 Comments

HI, I’ve uploaded a free report to our site with a range of behaviour management strategies for seven of the most common behaviour problems faced by classroom teachers. Feel free to download the report -and please, by all means, leave a comment if you want me to include strategies for any other types of behaviour. [...]

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