Are you having trouble managing the behaviour of certain students in your class?? Are you exhausted by the end of the day and your throat hoarse??? This session will look at elements of the DoE’s CMS program, with a focus on taming one of your challenging students with the use Informal Contracts.

1. Classroom Management
Strategies
Dealing with a student’s persistent misbehaviours

3. Effective Classroom Management
Preventing inappropriate
behaviour
 According to instructional repertoire
 Creating belonging

4. Responding to inappropriate
behaviour
 According to the Bump Theory

6. Bump 6 – Informal Contracts

7. Why:
• Minimises time spent dealing with misbehaviour
during class time (allows action, rather than
teacher talk);
• Allows persistent problems to be dealt with using
low-key responses; and
• In a positive way, indicates to the student that you
wish to work cooperatively to solve the problem
so that you can teach and others can learn.

8. Preconditions:
• Do this at a time of calm, not crisis.
• When the student comes in to chat have a list of specific
behaviours to target (no more than 2).
• Have a planned course of action. How can I alter the
behaviour around this student.
• Need appropriate consequences.

9. Structure:
1. Greet student and set atmosphere.
2. Define the Problem.
3. Negotiate the extent of the problem using numbers
4. Agree on Consequences
5. Enact closure - Check for understanding
6. End Conference.

10. Roleplay
Can you identify the different sections?