GE13 Essential Classroom Management

Objectives

To provide delegates with the necessary tools and techniques to ensure that learning rather than 'managing' is the key activity in class!

Who should attend

All teachers from all schools!

Agenda

9:15 - 9:30 Arrival and Registration

9:30 - 10:15 Managing your own behaviour

• Being a role model for appropriate behaviour
• The importance of emotions and feelings
• Consistency through emotional control

10:15 - 11:30 Prevention is far easier than the cure

• How to reduce the reasons and opportunities for disruption by meeting students' needs.
• How to anticipate and divert problems before they escalate.

11:30 - 11:45 Break

11:45 - 13:00 The Assertive Teacher

• Using verbal and non-verbal language to communicate an aura of total control in your classroom.
• How to manage your own feelings to ensure a positive environment which encourages and fosters right action.

13:00 - 13:45 Lunch

13:45 - 14:30 Establishing and maintaining the All-Important Teacher/Pupil Relationship

• How to drastically improve, maintain and repair positive relationships with the most difficult pupils.
• Mentoring strategies and listening skills.

• When pupils respect you, they are more likely to behave for you and more likely to work.

14:30 - 15:00 Really Effective Praise

• How to move on from an over-reliance on tangible rewards and help students experience and understand the intrinsic benefits of appropriate actions.
• Praise is a VERY powerful tool and can engage the worst student... if it's done correctly.

15:00 - 15:30 Rules and Routines

• How to develop consistency.
• Teaching and reinforcing appropriate behaviour through classroom routines

15:30 - 16:00 Applying Sanctions Without Causing Resentment or Confrontation

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