7. Engagement
Understanding Classroom Behaviour
Establishing Authority
- To explore and understand a school's policies and practices with regard to behaviour management
- To review the repertoire of strategies for managing behaviour which we typically use
- To consider strategies appropriate to managing different behavioural challenges
Skills for Engagement
- To investigate one's classroom management skills
- To pre-empt general misbehaviour and to reduce incidents of inappropriate behaviour
Managing Classroom Episodes
- To evaluate the beginning of a session and to consider areas for improvement
- To monitor periods of transition in your own teaching
- To review the end of a session and identify areas for improvement
- To monitor responses to a classroom crisis
- To consider your view of disruptive behaviour
- To record incidents of ongoing 'problem' behaviour
- To analyse and reflect on your management of specific behaviour