1) The document discusses strategies for effective classroom leadership and behavior management, noting that preventative action is most effective but clear consequences are needed for unacceptable behavior. 2) It emphasizes consistency, having reasonable expectations for student compliance, and praising positive behavior as core strategies. 3) The document also warns against the mistaken belief that teachers can control all student behavior all the time and stresses that effective behavior management is about keeping systems between the teacher and individual students rather than targeting students.

1. Peter Hook Confident Classroom Leadership A BasicToolkit

2. Poor Behaviour Poor behaviour cannot be tolerated as it is a denial of the right of pupils to learn and teachers to teach . To enable learning to take place preventative action is most effective , but where this fails, schools must have clear, firm and intelligent strategies in place to help pupils manage their behaviour. Report of the Practitioners’ Group on School Behaviour and Discipline – October 2005

3. Children…. “ The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in the place of exercise. Children are now tyrants not servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” Socrates, 469-399 BC

4. Key Message 1 There are no ‘magic wands’ out there!

5. Amy’s Words of Wisdom

6. A mistaken belief…. Good teachers control the behaviour of all the children all the time.

7. Good teachers control the behaviour of all the children all the time. manage most of the most of the time.

8. Key Message 2 Students need a ‘box’ around their behaviour

9. Key Message 3 Effective behaviour management has nothing to do with students

10. Key Message 4 Effective behaviour management is not ‘rocket science’

11. Key Message 5 Keep the system between you and the student

12. A Core Strategy Praise Before Compliance

13. Another Core Strategy Expectation of Compliance

14. The ‘Holy Grail’ CONSISTENCY

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16. And finally…. WELCOME