the Interactive Guide to
Behaviour Management
for Trainee and Newly Qualified Teachers
Classroom Organisation
Know your classroom consequences
Module 2
Sharpening your skills
To ensure that consequences are applied fairly and consistently
- Know what your list of consequences is, before you start teaching
- Know when and how to apply your consequences and when to introduce school sanctions
- Use classroom consequences that are not enjoyable
- Apply consequences which are reasonable and respectful, when given
- Make sure that the children understand the consequences eg. “If you do that this will happen”
- Display your monitoring system eg. the Behaviour Recovery Board
- Introduce consequences early in the lesson. Start as you mean to go on
- Apply consequences using positive language
- Apply them calmly, consistently and fairly
- Use the language of choice eg.
“The choice is to work at your table quietly for 5 minutes or to lose 5 minutes of your break time” - Give positive reminders about the classroom rules and expectations
- Saying ‘Thank you’ at the end of a reminder giving the impression you assure it will be heeded can be very assertive and effective
- Apply the appropriate consequence when a reminder has been ignored
- Apply an appropriate consequence if there is a sudden and rapid deterioration in behaviour
- Be ready to reduce the consequences when behaviour is recovered
- Look for opportunities to praise eg.
“Well done, I can see that you have settled down now”
“I am impressed by the way you have followed advice”