How Exercise Boosts Teacher Wellbeing
Happiness, energy and confidence are boosted by focusing on teacher wellbeing. Both yours and your students!
Managing conflict
Essential Back To School Tips For Parents
Going back to school can be a time of great excitement… and anxiety. These simple tips can help parents and students have the best start to the year possible.
How To Build Positive Relationships With Students
Relationships are at the heart of all we do as teachers. Knowing how to build positive relationships with students is a cornerstone teaching skill.
If you think back to the teachers you had who really influenced you in a positive way and had an impact on your learning you will probably not remember the content of what they taught you. What you will remember is the way they treated you, how you felt in their class and the types of interactions you had.
Here are 13 great ways to build positive relationships with your students.
How To Get Students To Do What You Want
We cannot control another person’s behaviour, but when we change what we do, we can increase the likelihood that students will do what we want.
Here are the top 11 mistakes teachers make with behaviour management.
How To Get Students To Like You
It is not necessary for your students to like you, but it is very important that they think you like them!
Relationships are the cornerstone of your work as a teacher; kids will work harder for you when they know you care about them.
The Top Ten Mistakes Teachers Make with Student-Teacher Relationships….
Why Rewards Don’t Work
There are so many differing views on what positive reinforcement actually is, and whether you should or should not use it. Positive reinforcement can be a variety of things: grades on a report card, verbal praise, non-verbal acknowledgment, specific feedback and tangible rewards.
Here are 13 mistakes that teachers make when using reinforcement.
Positive Schools Positive Behaviour Management
If you didn’t get the chance to attend the Positive Schools Conference in 2017 here are some quick takeaways. Common themes were the importance of school connectedness, positive relationships and student and staff wellbeing.
Why Punishment Is Ineffective Behaviour Management
Why Punishment is Ineffective Behaviour Management Punishment/ Rewards; two sides of the same coin? When I was in primary school, it was common for kids to get the strap if they didn’t do the right thing. And that could be something as simple as not answering the bell immediately or talking in lines. I distinctly …
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5 Reasons Why Restorative Practices Supports Effective Behaviour Management
Schools often struggle with how to teach students to be accountable for their actions and to take responsibility when they have acted inappropriately.
Howard Zehr, the restorative justice pioneer, coined the three “restorative questions” that guide restorative practices.
What Are Logical Consequences?
Have you ever felt that it didn’t matter what the consequences were for a student’s behaviour, they didn’t make any difference? If a behaviour management strategy isn’t working, it may be time to change and perhaps that means taking a completely different approach.
Despite all our best efforts at prevention, there will be times when students do not always follow directions or comply with our expectations. So how do we respond in a way that will help students learn appropriate behaviour and maintain positive relationships?