7. Engagement

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Reflective Activities

Understanding Classroom Behaviour

• To understand student behaviour in our classroom circumstances

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

Cycles of Behaviour

• To consider the range of sanctions operating in your school
• To reflect on classroom management and discipline using the Elton Report's 'principles or classroom management'

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Further Reading

Notes on Further Reading

• Overview
• Understanding classroom behaviour
• Establishing authority
• Skills for engagement
• Managing classroom episodes
• Cycles of behaviour

Related articles

• Whole school issues and pupil behaviour

Useful links

• Bill Roger's talk 'Ensuring a settled and focused class'
• Peter Hutton's TED talk 'What if students controlled their own learning?'
• Behaviour2Learn YouTube channel
• Behaviour Management Policy example - SureStart

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Research Briefings

• Engaging teachers, engaging learners: Action research for developing inclusion in secondary schools

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Diagrams and Figures

• Figure 7.1 Child, environment and behaviour