Tips for memorising students names to improve with-it-ness and classroom management.
How does knowing student names help with classroom management? Managing students behaviour is so much easier when we know their
Category: Classroom Management
4 teacher behaviours that kill the momentum of your lesson.
Improving the smoothness and momentum of your lesson will increase engagement and reduce students’ misbehaviour in your classroom. We will
Increase student engagement and accountability
High engagement and accoutability are important for student attainment and student behaviour. So what can teachers do to increase student
Overlapping, the unsung hero of withitness and classroom of management.
What is Overlapping? Overlapping is the term coined by Jacob S. Kounin in the 1970s. His book ‘Discipline and Group
What is the definition of Classroom Management?
Having teachers that are effective in classroom management has benefits to all stakeholders. For example, maintaining an orderly learning environment
Improve your credible voice and presence in the classroom to increase effectiveness.
When I work with Graduate Teachers and give feedback, I often recommend that they improve their ‘teacher voice’ or credible
How we grow as teachers using reflection: learn from the inevitable mistakes.
As teachers, we are always learning on the job. Each lesson we have, we learn something new. It is a reflective
How you can improve the behaviour of students after the lesson from hell.
So, you have had the lesson from hell and you are dreading the next lesson. The behaviour of students was out
How to respond to misbehaviour: low key skills plus much more.
Barrie Bennett’s book Power Plays introduces the bumps in great depth and is well worth getting a copy for your
Preparation for improved classroom management.
PDP is an acronym my friend and I came up with when we created a course that we delivered to