Developing Effective Discipline

Roger Smith

2668ePackMar 00978 1 84070 605 5

A practical guide for schools

This invaluable resource is designed to help all teachers in primary and secondary schools, whether experienced or otherwise, to improve their skills in and learn more about classroom discipline and pupil management. It is full of sound advice and suggestions as to how to solve all kinds of common classroom problems. There are also lots of practical activities and case studies that have been designed to help every teacher improve.

The sections include:

• How to be an assertive teacher – With a guide to how to be in control by using assertive behaviour.
• Establishing the right relationships –This is essential if teachers are going to get the best out of their pupils.
• An effective classroom atmosphere – There are several activities showing how to create the kind of classroom atmosphere where good behaviour is the norm and where it is actually difficult to behave badly.
• Classroom management – Every teacher has to use a variety of styles to improve teaching and learning. This section suggests different ways to use assertive teaching to benefit sound classroom management.
• Analysing pupil behaviour and setting behaviour targets – It is important to know why pupils behave badly so that techniques and styles can be developed that will prevent bad behaviour.
• Working rules and rewards – No classroom can work properly without rules. The kinds of rules that you develop will determine how successful you are in establishing sound discipline.
• Further strategies – This section suggests various helpful techniques.

As well as being a pack for individual teachers, many of the activities can be used in group sessions and many of the sheets will form excellent OHTs for staff development in classroom management and pupil discipline.

Note that this product forms part of:

• Developing Your Staff 1: Working with Students
• Primary School Management

Contents

Introduction

• 1 Assertive teaching
• 2 Establishing the right relationships
• 3 An effective classroom atmosphere
• 4 Classroom management
• 5 Analysing pupil behaviour and setting behaviour targets
• 6 Working rules and rewards
• 7 Further strategies

References