Books
Understanding and Managing Learning Behaviour: Using a Behaviour Journal for Developing Confident Teaching
This book is a journey written to develop confident teachers. It shows how keeping a Behaviour Journal can help teachers to reflect on their techniques and behaviours as well as the behaviours of their students, and can enhance critical thinking, trainee-centred learning and research. The book highlights how keeping a Behaviour Journal can increase communication and language affecting behaviour and learning.
It includes tried and tested exercises that allow readers to practice the art of keeping a Behaviour Journal as well as examples from past Behaviour Journal writers who share their experiences, demonstrating how the journal can facilitate the immediate and regular sharing of the trainee learning in the classroom with the mentor or consultant. It shows readers how to:
- create a Behaviour Journal as a model and tool for initial teacher training to foster independent and reflective learning
- use observations and reflective skills to produce convincing well-evidenced reflective writing using experience, observations and relevant reading
- be critical of classroom systems, strategies or programmes to ensure validity or recognise inadequacies
Expertly written by an experienced trainer, this book is a fantastic resource for teachers, trainers of teachers, mentors and anyone looking for new ideas and ways of developing teachers in schools and colleges.
Developing Children's Behaviour in the Classroom: A Practical Guide For Teachers And Students
This text suggest that teachers need to be able to cope with pupil behaviour before they can even begin to deliver the National Curriculum. Often classes contain both statemented children those officially recognize as having behavioural problems and unstatemented but difficult children. Teachers have few strategies to deal with the kind of behaviour that these children present as little, if any, of their training is allotted to classroom and child management.; The authors aim to raise awareness of behavioural needs in the classroom and avoid exclusions. They do this by encouraging school staff to work together to develop policies which will encourage good behaviour.
Times Educational Supplement review: ‘She goes on to cover the whole field of behaviour management, displaying skill and insight in putting together the often-elusive mix of theoretical analysis and practical help.’
