Peter Hook

Confident Classroom LeadershipA BasicToolkit

Poor BehaviourPoor behaviour cannot be tolerated as it is a denial of the right of pupils to learn and teachers to teach. To enable learning to take place preventative action is most effective, but where this fails, schools must have clear, firm and intelligent strategies in place to help pupils manage their behaviour.

Report of the Practitioners’ Group on School Behaviour and Discipline – October 2005

Children….“The children now love luxury; they have bad

manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in the place of exercise. Children are now tyrants not servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

Socrates, 469-399 BC

Key Message 1

There are no ‘magic wands’ out there!

Amy’s Words of Wisdom

A mistaken belief….

Good teachers control

the behaviour of all the

children all the time.

Good teachers control

the behaviour of all the

children all the time.

manage

most of the

most of the time.

Key Message 2

Students need a ‘box’ around their behaviour

Key Message 3

Effective behaviour management has nothing

to do with students

Key Message 4

Effective behaviour management is not

‘rocket science’

Key Message 5

Keep the system between you and the student

A Core Strategy

Praise Before Compliance

Another Core Strategy

Expectation of Compliance

The ‘Holy Grail’

CONSISTENCY

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