Have you ever had a student who displayed challenging behaviour that baffled you?
None of your usual behaviour tricks and tools seem to work.
The student responds positively to you one day, but the next won’t do anything for you. Or they love your reward system for a couple of days and then refuse to participate in it.
Some teachers will say that it is not their job to teach students how to behave, or how to regulate their emotions, or how to make friends or what to do when they feel angry.
However, if you don’t teach them these important social skills at school, how will they learn?
The classroom environment can contribute to problems between students as well as reduce student engagement and learning. When teachers and schools give careful thought to how the environment is arranged, authentic learning is enhanced and incidental behaviour issues can be prevented.
Where students and teacher get on with the business of learning and growing with the least amount of fuss and disruption.
Where students are engaged and excited about the learning.
Where there are clear ground rules for how to behave, how to treat each other and how to learn.
When a student displays challenging behaviour, teachers usually look for the antecedent or trigger. Simply put, the trigger is whatever happened immediately prior to the problem behaviour and seems to contribute to the behaviour.
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As teachers, we are always looking for ways to optimise the learning for our students, whilst also taking little extra preparation time.
Simple, effective ways to engage your students that won’t require any extra work for you!
Here are some simple techniques you can add to your teaching to engage even the most difficult students with no extra time. There are hundreds of interesting ways for students to learn and many of them take very little additional preparation time. In fact, the lecture style of content delivery (‘chalk and talk’) is …
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