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Tackling classroom behaviour
How to build a positive learning environment
Struggling with classroom behaviour? This page brings together expert advice from renowned behaviour specialist Bill Rogers and other leading voices to help you manage behaviour with confidence and compassion. Whether you're dealing with disruptive students, trying to stay calm under pressure, or looking for ways to foster better relationships in your classroom, these free resources offer practical strategies you can use right away.
Ask world-renowned expert, Bill Rogers
To punish or not to punish? Do I have the right to be angry? How can I create a positive learning environment? What can I do if the class is completely out of control? Wonder no more: Bill Rogers is here to help.
"Miss, you are not my mum!"
Your relationship with your students can play a key part in how they behave. miss_youre_not_my_mum.pdf from Adele Bates' Miss, I Don't Give a Sh*t will help you to understand why a positive relationship is important and how you can create one.
Better behaviour for all
As a teacher, you can completely change the mood of the classroom with your behaviour. It can be difficult to stay mindful about how you're acting and reacting, so below are some top tips on how to ensure you're motivating your students to feel positive.
How to Improve Your Behaviour:
- Your first task in any situation is to ensure that your behaviour does not escalate the situation.
- Treating every day as a fresh start is not simply a cliché. It is vital as our relationships must withstand the bad times.
- Some children experience, and indeed expect, failure and rejection on a regular basis. Our behaviour can show them that we are safe people to be around and that we want them to be successful.
- When children sabotage situations to avoid failure or challenge, our behaviour can show them that they are welcomed back unconditionally.
- It is important to recognise in yourself the times when your capacity to cope with poor behaviour is compromised.
- Courtesy is contagious – modelling the behaviour we want from our children is essential.
- Your voice is immensely powerful. Talk to the children as if their parents were sat next to them.
- Sometimes our behaviours as adults indicate a desire to win, and that means that a child has to lose.
To explore these ideas in more detail, check out Jarlath O'Brien's Better Behaviour.
The relationship between behaviour and mental health
Aristotle once famously said "educating the mind, without educating the heart is no education at all". With 1 in 10 five to 16-year-olds in the UK now having a diagnosable mental health condition, it's vital you engage with issues around mental health and wellbeing in schools.
This chapter is from Children’s Mental Health and Emotional Well-being in Primary Schools.
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