Classroom Behaviour

A Practical Guide to Effective Teaching, Behaviour Management and Colleague Support

Bill Rogers

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781473918269
• Edition: 4
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Classroom Management

This exciting new edition of the best-selling and beloved teacher?s companion looks at the everyday behaviour issues facing teachers working in today?s classrooms. Describing real situations and dilemmas, Bill Rogers provides theoretically sound strategies and best practices to support you in meeting the challenges of the job, as well as building up a rapport with both students and colleagues to enable positive and productive learning environments. Written jargon-free in Bill?s accessible and empathetic voice it includes in-depth strategies, practical examples, case studies and pragmatic hints and tips to put in to practice. This will make for informative and inspiring reading to all thoseinvolved in educating our children and young people. The new edition has been revised and updated and now also includes access to an interactive website packed with a host of extra material to take you further.

• Videos of Bill demonstrating his behaviour strategies in real classroom settings
• Podcasts where Bill explains his ideas and ethos in more detail as well as answering teachers? FAQs
• Extra reading material for even more support on difficult subjects
• Behaviour Management Tool Templates to use with students in the everyday classroom
• Role-play scenario cards to help understand and prepare for challenging situations

"We often think of behaviour management in terms of dealing with challenging behaviour, but Dr Rogers begins by looking at classroom organisation and whole-class strategies. Alongside the theory, he provides examples that create a much deeper understanding of exactly what works and what doesn't." - Special magazine

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• About the author
• Acknowledgements
• Preface to the fourth edition
• Acknowledgements
• Publisher Note
• Introduction: “I never thought I’d become a teacher”
• Chapter 1 The dynamics of classroom behaviour
• Chapter 2 New class, new year: the establishment phase of behaviour management
• Chapter 3 The language of behaviour management and discipline
• Chapter 4 Effective teaching: fundamental understandings and skills
• Chapter 5 Management beyond the classroom: behaviour consequences
• Chapter 6 Challenging children and children with emotional and behavioural difficulties
• Chapter 7 Managing anger in ourselves and others
• Chapter 8 When things get difficult: hard class, hard times
• Epilogue
• Appendix A – Poster formats
• Appendix B – Confronting and bullying behaviour
• Glossary
• Author Index
• References
• Index