Getting the Buggers to Behave

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THE MUST-HAVE BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT BIBLE "Show the students the can of dog food, open it up and then eat from it. The suggestions are concrete and usable, although probably more appropriate for elementary school than other age groups.

With 5 years of teaching experience, I realised that I had a lot of tips and advice that might help those teachers experiencing difficulties with 'getting the buggers to behave'. She has written numerous bestselling education and parenting books, which have been translated and published around the world. The definition of critical thinking is well elaborated and thought provoking, including things like proposing, connecting, solving, and supporting. Now in its fifth edition, Getting the Buggers to Behave remains a firm favourite with trainees, newly qualified teachers and experienced staff alike.That’s not to say it wasn’t jam packed full of advice and case studies that, if I had let them, could have led to a mid-sunbathe anxiety attack… but somehow Cowley manages to prepare us for the worst while motivating us to be confident in tackling behaviour in an informed and practical, not a personal, way. The section on critical thinking includes logical and creative approaches without trying to categorize them rigidly. Getting Your Class to Behave is the positive, practical answer to poor behaviour you've been looking for! I've seen this information classified more thoroughly (see the Foundation for Critical Thinking), but this exploration was also quite understandable. Before reading this, I could teach my subject, but I couldn't manage a classroom of difficult students, I wasn't firm enough.

Covering a range of issues spanning behaviour management, lesson structure, resource preparation and narratives in the classroom, the book is a blueprint for becoming a particular kind of teacher - one who has high expectations, a concern for pupil well-being, and a knack for ushering learners into more effective learning. The boo covers preparing for your first meeting with a new group of students, developing your individual teaching style, creating a positive learning environment and working in really challenging schools. Sue has recently created a series of Positive Behaviour Management DVDs, in conjunction with educational company Creative Education. There are some great practical hints and tricks in this book and I'm looking forward to trying some of them out in my own classroom in the future (if we ever get back there). This is for my uni course (as predicted my reading has hit a wall when it comes to fiction at the moment).Your first meeting with any class offers you the chance to sow the seeds for an easy year, or take the first step on the road to disaster. She includes techniques to improve concentration, behavior and learning, to build thinking activities into lessons, to structure thinking through sequencing and in groups, to develop memory, critical and creative thinking, and to discuss complex ideas. A key part of Sue’s work is in providing training in positive behaviour management for schools and colleges around the UK and in Europe. The author gives suggestions for structuring and scaffolding evaluations, such as " find three good points about the work," giving students a rubric, modeling evaluative questions(Does it make sense?

Sue has also appeared in front of the Education Select Committee, as an expert witness on behaviour in schools. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Some of the theories in it are well known, but the book is nicely set out, and provides amusing examples or anecdotes. The chapter on SEN was very late on, possibly the penultimate one, reinforcing the position of students with SEND as marginal. In this brand new edition, Sue takes a detailed look at positive behaviour management, considers recent advances in understanding self-regulation, and offers specific advice on tackling behavioural challenges in the post-Covid classroom.Ex-library book with stamps on the first page, it is also likely to have a small shelf number sticker on the spine. However, I would have preferred a book more focused on the primary age group as most of the strategies/problems/situations discussed were secondary-based. The Irregular School explores the foundations of the current controversies and argues that continuing to think in terms of the regular school or the special school obstructs progress towards inclusive education.

Her books offer a combination of tips, ideas and strategies, written in an easily accessible and amusing way. Although this book covers a range of educational settings, you can definitely pull enough out for use in the primary school. Sue has also travelled to Europe to give training for teachers working for Service Children's Education, to teachers at international schools in Switzerland, and to teachers and trainee teachers in Slovenia.

Since then, I've been fortunate enough to work with literally thousands of people in the world of education. Through the training courses that she runs, Sue puts across her ideas about teaching and behaviour management in a fun and engaging format. For example, the chapter on why poor behaviour occurs was Chapter 8, while the chapter on First Lessons -- a more specific topic -- was early on. And for those of you working in the most challenging schools or colleges, I've included a new section on coping in really difficult circumstances.