“Wow Rob, You’ve definitely changed the lives of 40 of my students!”

Rob Plevin is the author of ‘Magic Classroom Management – How to Get The Most from the Worst Kids in School’ – a highly practical and down-to-earth guide for all teachers, lecturers and youth workers. He has extensive experience working with challenging children and young people, having worked in residential settings and tough schools for the last 15 years. His second book 'The Needs-Focused™Approach - A Simple Behaviour Management Strategy That Works' will be published in 2008. He is the originator of Needs-Focused™ .

His lessons have been described by Ofsted as ‘exemplary’ and he was praised by an LEA advisor as being ‘an extremely gifted and talented teacher’. Most recently he was employed as Deputy Head at a KS2/3 PRU for children and teenagers with behaviour problems including ADHD, EBD and associated disorders and was identified as a key player in the team which turned the unit round from 'Special Measures'. Prior to his teaching career he worked as an outdoor activity instructor and youth worker for young offenders and young people in crisis.

With an obvious passion for helping young people he now lectures and provides training all over the UK and abroad promoting the 'Needs-Focused' approach to behaviour management through the websites www.BehaviourNeeds.com and www.classroom-management.org . Consultancy , coaching, INSET and courses are provided for local authorities, universities and schools with a focus on providing routes to success for challenging young people and the staff who support them.

"I believe most incidents of disruption and bad behaviour can be avoided as long as we adopt a few key strategies. Anyone can make a child behave simply by offering a sufficiently valuable reward; just as we can make a dog roll over with the promise of a biscuit. But we shouldn't be trying to make children behave for us. If any lasting changes are to be made in our youth we need to help them experience and learn for themselves, the many benefits and corresponding intrinsic value of responsible behavior. The way to make this happen is relatively simple yet it requires more effort than merely throwing reward after reward at children who have grown to expect instant gratification."

“Made me realize that the things I did weren’t helping to build relationship with my pupils but actually destroying it. It is not too late!" 

"Passionate and thought-provoking."