Changing Behaviour in Schools
Promoting Positive Relationships and Wellbeing
- Sue Roffey - Honorary Associate Professor at University College London and the Universities of Exeter and Western Sydney
Good teachers know that positive relationships with students and school connectedness lead to both improved learning and better behavior for all students, and this is backed up by research. Changing Behaviour in Schools will show you how to promote positive behavior and wellbeing in your setting.
Taking an holistic approach to working with students, the author provides examples of effective strategies for encouraging pro-social and collaborative behavior in the classroom, the school and the wider community. Chapters look at the importance of the social and emotional aspects of learning, and ways to facilitate change.
Issues covered include:
• developing a sense of belonging in the classroom
• teaching approaches that maximize engagement and participation
• how to respond effectively to challenging situations
• ways to re-engage with students who have become marginalized.
Each chapter has case studies from primary and secondary schools, activities, checklists and suggestions for further reading. This is an essential textbook for trainee and newly qualified teachers, who want to become good teachers and manage student relationships with confidence, respect and resilience.
A useful book for FdA Learning Support, particularly for the Behaviour course in Year 2. Easy to read with clear format. Useful text boxes and tables and "activities for students", which we have already begun to use as teaching points.
This will be a supplemenatary text on our new education module at level 6
This is a really useful, practical text containing case studies that support the theoretical background to the book. It is easy to navigate and the sections for reflection and discussion provide good prompts for deeper thinking.
This book would benefit learners at L3 and above to use to further their research however I feel it would be of most use within the class room setting as the question and reflection exercises would benefit all.
Concise and relevant support for trainees currently on teaching placement. Useful as further reading following on from lectures and seminars. This text is accessible for undergraduates on a QTS course.
This text will be very useful to all teacher trainees. It is scholarly and evidence-based, yet acessible. The case studies are an excellent tool to identify and analyse issues of behaviour management, and I like the emphasis on positive relationships. I will be ordering copies for the library.
Written and presented in an easy-to-access format, which means that students can find a chapter or 'tip'/case study that is relevant to them, without having to read the whole of a chapter at a time.
A comprehensive examination of both teacher and pupil behaviour. Clearly structured with concise information detailed on summaries at the end of each chapter. Excellent.
However it would have been beneficial to incorporate more early years examples into the case studies. Indeed it might have been useful to have a section on early years that then progressed onto the primary school child.
Good focus on development of relationships as opposed to 'techniques' for managing behaviour.
Activities and discussion points promote reflectiveness on the part of the trainee teacher.
An excellent resource, but more relevent to those inservice PCET tutors trainees who deal with 14 - 19's.
I use the case studies to generate discussion within classroom management sessions.
