Classroom Behaviour
A Practical Guide to Effective Teaching, Behaviour Management and Colleague Support
- Bill Rogers - Independent Educational Consultant, Victoria, Australia
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 those involved 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
I cannot speak highly enough of Classroom Behaviour. All educators will identify with the situations Bill describes. He does not duck the realities in today’s schools and classrooms. He provides clear guidance for putting professional integrity and emotional literacy into practice from early, minimal intervention to responding to the most difficult student and the most challenging situation.
Every teacher needs this book, and every student needs them to have read it.
Now in its third edition, Classroom Behaviour owes much of its success to the realism of its scenarios and case studies, and the lessons and advice that the author draws from them. He gives us forensic deconstruction and analysis, often with dialogue, of every conceivable classroom issue, challenge and potential crisis. There is much on language - tone, choice of words, and body language - reminding us just how easily we can undermine our intentions by the way we convey them. This new edition has additional material on bullying, teaching autism spectrum disorder children in mainstream schools, and working with challenging students.
The scenarios are real and relatable, the feelings and reflections honest, and the problem-solving strategies and interventions realistic. All teachers, teacher-researchers, professional leaders, and educationalists will benefit from contemplating and putting into practice the suggestions and guidance in this book and their students and colleagues may thank them too.
A detailed, practical book.
This book is a good guide for educators to understand the students and colleagues behaviours especially in the education sector.
It also discussed the significance of effective teaching. Recommended for educators.
Recommendation from previous tutor.
It is a fairly idiosyncratic approach which is liked by some trainees but not respected by others.
Relevant to psychologists and also teachers. Clear summaries of up to date evidence
This 4th edition continues to deliver practical advice on the topic that bothers most trainee teachers - that of behaviour management. Changes from the previous edition include more case studies and some updated text especially with regard to group dynamics. The additional access to online materials includes video clips, podcasts, extra reading, behaviour management tools and more. The only criticism that I have of this very readable and very useful text is that I'd like to see more evidence from recent research for behaviour management.
on the reading list for 3 M level assignments and 2 undergraduate modules
Some good case studies which can be adopted for FE courses
Sample Materials & Chapters
Classroom Behaviour: The Dynamics of Classroom Behaviour
Introduction : I Never Thought I'd Become a Teacher
