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It's All An Act
Practising The Art Of Successful Classroom Management
This book is available to read until 4th February, 2026
- 180 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 4 Feb |Learn more
About this book
From trainee teachers to veteran, battle-hardened staff, the recurring nightmare is of a class of teenagers who simply will not do as they are told. The stomach-clenching, hand-trembling, knee-jittering question we ask ourselves at the start of each new year is, 'What if the pupils walk all over me?' No matter how confident we are in our own abilities, regardless of our position in the school, irrespective of the reputation we have built for ourselves, if we do not ask ourselves that question, then sooner or later we are in for a nasty shock. When it comes to classroom management, we are all in the same boat. We all experience classroom management challenges.
It's All An Act offers a range of practical, no-nonsense, pragmatic strategies and techniques to try out, practise, adapt or abandon. It works on the premise that, to a great extent, classroom management is something we can do with pupils rather than to them. In response to the cry of, 'What's the point? That would never work!' the reply is, 'Give it a go. What have you got to lose?' For colleagues under the cosh of lesson preparation, marking, administration, meetings and deadlines, it's an easy read. What have you got to lose?
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KlassenführungTable of contents
- Title Page
- It’s All An Act
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Copyright Information ©
- Acknowledgement
- First Things First
- Before You Begin
- What to Wear
- Your Classroom
- Arranging the Desks
- Displays
- Equipment
- First Lessons
- So, What to Do First?
- Seating Plans
- Assume IT Will Let You Down
- The Power Place
- Stand Up
- Repeat Performance
- Introductions
- Taking the Register
- The Pencil Sharpener Syndrome
- Rambo vs Clint Eastwood
- Playing the Game
- Making Tiny Things Big
- Routines
- Homework Is Homework
- Before You Go
- An Incremental Approach
- Step One The Look
- Step Two The Name
- Step Three The Name (Version Two)
- Step Four Stand Up
- Step Five Stand Up and Question
- Stage Six The Private-Public Conversation
- Stage Seven Deferred Conversation
- Stage Eight Scale of 1–10
- Stage Nine There’s No Escape
- Stage Ten Use Your Army
- Knotty Problems
- The Cracked Record Technique
- What Have I Done Wrong?
- Permission to Speak, Sir
- Location, Location, Location
- Techniques to Try
- The Slow Walk
- Counting from Five to One
- Silent Counting from Five to One
- Hands Up
- Keep the Beat
- Working Noise Level
- Three, Two, One
- Stop, Stand and Scan
- Breaking the Spell
- In the Dark
- Lights Off
- Stop, Please
- Softly Spoken
- Building in Silence
- Interrupting the Flow
- Shutting Down the Lesson
- Venting Your Spleen
- Selected Deafness
- Fly on the Wall
- Reaping and Sowing
- The Vending Machine
- Crime and Punishment
- Detention Block
- Whole Class Punishments
- He’s Behind You!
- Suspended Sentence
- Deal or No Deal?
- The Goldfish Bowl Syndrome
- That’s My Job
- Using the Right Words
- Relationships
- Do’s and Don’ts Be Positive
- Be Enthusiastic
- Be Kind
- Be Consistent
- Be Polite
- Be Rational
- Be Fair
- Be Honest with Yourself
- Don’t be Sarcastic
- Don’t Deliberately Humiliate
- Don’t Touch Children
- Backtracking
- Things That Make Behaviour Management Difficult
- Potentially Disruptive Activities
- Reclaiming the Ground
- Beauty
- The Beast
- Risky Strategies Open Discussions
- You Have the Power
- It’s All an Act