the Interactive Guide to
Behaviour Management
for Trainee and Newly Qualified Teachers
Managing lessons on a daily basis
The first and last five minutes of a lesson
Module 3
Sharpening your skills
To reinforce your expectations
- Decide how you are going to bring a sense of order and calm to the classroom
- Know that your body language will give important messages
- Be specific and adopt a variety of non-verbal gestures eg. “Hand up means we are ready and we are listening”
- Use clear and crisp verbal instructions to the class eg. “Look at the clock, look at me and listen”
- Routinely, stand in same place to start your lesson and observe behaviours, whilst waiting
- Ensure that all books, work tasks and equipment are immediately available
- Decide on your monitors to distribute books etc
- Think carefully about using more challenging or stimulating starter activities
- Focus on those children who are looking and listening, praise accordingly
- Be prepared to settle or bring back to task those who are not listening, distracting others or those out of their seats
- Decide which classroom consequences need to be introduced for certain pupils, who do not conform