Needs-Focused™Classroom Management

How to Succeed With The Worst Kids in School

Fundamental strategies and techniques for all teachers, NQTs and student teachers

This 1-day course is taking place in London (26 Feb), Birmingham (27 Feb) and Leeds (29 Feb)

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Course Contents:

Concentrate on the one thing you can control - YOU

Being a role model for appropriate behaviour

The importance of emotions and feelings

Consistency through emotional control

Prevent problems by focusing on ‘needs’

How to reduce the reasons and opportunities for disruption by meeting students’ needs. The best classroom activities to satisfy student needs. How to anticipate and divert problems before they escalate. The Needs-Focused™ approach.

Verbal and Physical Language of Highly  Effective Teachers

Using verbal and non-verbal language to communicate an aura of total control in your classroom. How to encourage and foster right action in the classroom.

Really Effective Praise and encouragement

How to move on from an over-reliance on tangible rewards and help students experience and understand the intrinsic benefits of appropriate actions. This can be a VERY powerful tool… IF it’s done correctly.

Establishing and maintaining  the All-Important Teacher/Pupil Relationship

How to drastically improve, maintain and repair positive relationships with the most difficult pupils. Enlisting support from 'hard-to-reach' parents. When pupils respect you, they are more likely to behave for you.

Rules and Routines

How to develop consistency - automatically. How to teach and reinforce appropriate behaviour through classroom routines

Applying Sanctions Without Causing Resentment or Confrontation

How to give instructions that pupils will follow without argument and apply sanctions without damaging the teacher/pupil relationship.

Practical Intervention Strategies

How to silence and settle the noisy class.

What to do when they won't follow instructions.

What to do when they 'switch off'.

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