the Interactive Guide to
Behaviour Management
for Trainee and Newly Qualified Teachers
Know your behaviour strategies
What Wave 2 strategies can I use?
Module 4
Sharpening your skills
To become more confident in dealing with individual pupils you will need to
- Use age and ability-appropriate language, ie. words and instructions that pupils understand
- Avoid talking down to them
- Get to know your children, especially those with special educational needs
- Plan individual behaviour strategies in advance
- Apply behaviour management strategies which are simple and effective to use
- Give pupils the opportunity to recover their behaviour and attitude, at any time during the cycle of consequences
- Never give ultimatums/threaten consequences that you could/do not wish to enforce
Extend your behaviour management toolkit by
- Seeking advice and help should you need to remember that the inappropriate behaviour of a minority is not (usually) restricted to your classroom
- Being honest, professional and develop the confidence to share your concerns
- Observing experienced teachers in action in particular how they manage difficult pupils in the classroom and around school
- Listening to how they deal with pupils in a 1 to 1 interview
- Treat your school placement and early teaching experiences as a ‘learning curve’ for your professional development