For those who haven’t heard of me, my name is Chris and I work with Rob Plevin to help run Behaviour Needs. It brings me great sadness to inform you that Rob and his partner, Sally, were involved in a very serious incident two weeks ago. Both were in hospital critical but are now stable. Rob’s speech has [...]
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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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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: Leave a nice taste in the mouth
January 7th, 2010 3 Comments
We can motivate them superficially with tokens, star charts, stickers and treats but real motivation is intrinsic – give them good work to do if you want them to do good work.
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Classroom Management Tips: Students Who Are Late
December 29th, 2009 2 Comments
Here are some classroom management strategies for dealing with students who are late for lessons: 1. Have clear rules on punctuality Students need to know that there is a clear rule in place with regard to punctuality. They need to know what the consequence is for being late and they need to know that this [...]
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Classroom Management Tips: Students Not Bringing Equipment to Class
December 27th, 2009 2 Comments
Here are some classroom management strategies to help deal with students who ‘forget’ to bring materials and equipment to class… 1. Offer to loan them some of your equipment in return for ‘collateral’ such as a shoe. 2. Give a brief period of time at the start of the lesson for pupils to borrow items [...]
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Classroom Management Tips: Dealing With the Noisy Class
December 24th, 2009 8 Comments
Here are four useful strategies to help deal with the class that just won’t settle: 1. Allow some cooling off time of a few minutes after transitions and breaks to allow them to settle. Use this time to chat to individuals and small groups, settle them, deal with any problems and establish a calm, relaxed [...]
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Classroom Management Tips: Dealing with Disruption
December 24th, 2009 2 Comments
Here are three strategies to help deal with low level disruption: 1. Remove the audience factor, try and talk to the student quietly on a 1:1 basis. Whenever possible remind them of past successes and capabilities or statrt by offering the support/assistance. They are more likely to listen when you start with something positive – [...]
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A simple way to form cooperative learning teams
December 22nd, 2009 No Comments
We’ve just had a great tool developed which automates the process of putting your students into mixed ability groups. This form of grouping is essential for cooperative learning as it facilitates peer tutoring and eliminates groupings which lead to silliness and rowdiness. You can read all about it here: http://www.behaviourneeds.com/team-maker/ We’ve also included it as [...]
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