the Interactive Guide to
Behaviour Management
for Trainee and Newly Qualified Teachers
Classroom Organisation
Know your rules and routines
Module 2
Sharpening your skills
Establishing and maintaining rules and routines
Remember that classroom rules and routines
- Must reflect and encourage rights and responsibilities
- Should encourage pupils to be responsible for their own behaviour
- Should be designed to teach the pupils how to behave
- Will take some time to establish
- Will be most effective when positive and simple
- Are inextricably linked to rewards and consequences
You will need to
- Be a good role model for your pupils
- Adopt a quiet, calm and positive manner and attitude
- Learn how to be assertive not aggressive
- Learn to say “No” confidently
- Learn how to set boundaries. Be fair and consistent in applying them
- Learn to keep your cool and not over react to low level and inappropriate behaviours
- Be firm but fair and give lots of praise (when it is deserved)
- Know your simple set of classroom rules, inside out
- Work positively with your agreed list of classroom rules
- Be clear in using and maintaining them and recognise when pupils are doing better than they have before
- Teach pupils how to use them appropriately in class
- Listen to pupils and use their feedback to make rules and routines work better
- Know the classroom consequences that can be applied if rules are not kept
- Show a confidence that you can influence and deal with different types of behaviour
- When unacceptable or inappropriate behaviour occurs focus on the behaviour and refer to the rules (and why you have them) do not denigrate the person
Things to do
- Click here for a set of Positive Language statements to use with your pupils (8.9)