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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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New affiliate program

April 9th, 2010 No Comments

Hi everyone, Just a quickie to let you know we have launched a new affiliate program for all our behaviour management products at http://www.needsfocused.com/affiliates/index.html If you would like to help promote our products (and make yourself some extra regular money, simply click the link above and everything will be explained. Share on Facebook Tweet This [...]

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Yes!!! Needs Focused Behaviour Management Has Been Accredited!

January 17th, 2010 1 Comment

I’ve been waiting to let this out of the bag for a while now and just can’t keep it in any longer. We recently received notification that our flagship course – Needs Focused Classroom Management has been accredited by the University of Ulster. We will be releasing full details very soon so stay tuned… J [...]

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Classroom management tip – Keeping Calm

January 11th, 2010 5 Comments

This last step might prove a little difficult. When we’re angry, we have a tendency to spew out profanities or speeches that really don’t get us anywhere, even if what we’re saying is true or productive.

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