Blog – Needs Focused Teaching

Classroom management strategies to deal with an extremely difficult class.

12th November 2019
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Rumor has it that you only get ‘that’ class once every seven years… HA! The truth is that some teachers are dealing with an extremely difficult class every single day so here are a few

Classroom Management strategy – How to get any class quiet in 15 seconds or less

12th November 2019
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This is a very simple classroom management strategy taken from my main classroom management title, ‘Take Control of the Noisy Class.’ I often used this in class when I was a teacher, and now use at

Classroom Management strategies: Dealing with students who have no interest in the lesson.

8th November 2019
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A student who has no interest in lessons and anything you say and do can have a terrible impact on the teachers, the rest of the class and your classroom management strategies. What you must remember however

Classroom management tips: How to deal with inappropriate comments from students.

3rd November 2019
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Inappropriate and abusive comments are an increasingly prevalent issue for teachers today, meaning having an effective technique to deal with these comments is critical for your classroom management strategy. There

Five ways to make work relevant to your students

25th October 2019
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Students respond most positively in lessons when tasks and challenges are connected to what they know in the real world. We have to introduce new topics and information to them in a way that is

Six ways to get students to follow instructions

16th October 2019
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Issuing clear instructions is about ensuring that we communicate the right message to our students in the right way, so as to minimise confusion and confrontation and to maximise the chances of

The Top 5 Reasons To Include Games In Your Lessons

9th October 2019
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The inclusion of games and activities in the classroom provides us with an array of invaluable benefits that mostly gravitate around providing your students with a sense of belonging. Regularly including

Three Creative Positive Reinforcement (PR) Strategies You Might Not Have Thought Of

25th September 2019
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Positive reinforcement isn’t just about praise and encouragement; it helps if there is some variety in the way you acknowledge appropriate student behaviours. With that in mind, here are a couple of

The secret to making your lessons more appealing and engaging

10th September 2019
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I like to use an analogy that simplifies the task of engaging students considerably – I call it the ‘emotion rucksack’. If you’re faced with students dragging their heels and groaning as they

Effortless classroom management

10th September 2019
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This is an extract from one of my books – Take Control of the Noisy Class. I believe this to be THE most important message in the book. It holds the secret to ‘effortless’ classroom management. A

How to learn 40+ students’ names FAST

3rd September 2019
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You can easily learn a class of 40 names in one lesson with this method. It’s all just a matter of concentrating for a few minutes at a time on this single task and you’ll be amazed how powerful

How to create a seating plan that works

27th August 2019
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A properly thought out seating plan is an essential tool when you’re faced with a very challenging class. I remember, early on in my career, what it was like trying to change the seating with some of

Four steps for delivering consequences effectively

15th August 2019
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This four-step script can be used as a framework for delivering consequences without fights and fuss in response to most forms of disruption in lessons. 1. Give a clear warning State very clearly what

5 strategies to deal with the disruptive joker

9th August 2019
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The joker is desperate for attention. His smart remarks, rude comments, smutty gestures, witty retorts and wisecracks may be funny (unfortunately, some class comedians really are!) but they are often

7 tips to manage pupils who have no interest in your lesson

7th August 2019
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A student who has no interest in lessons and a negative attitude towards anything you say and do can have a terrible impact on the rest of the class. But what you must remember is that this student

About Rob Plevin..

As a new teacher in a comprehensive school, I really struggled to maintain control in the classroom before finally discovering how certain key strategies would lead to an immediate improvement in the way challenging students responded to me. Using these principles as a foundation I went on to develop a complete system for preventing and dealing with behaviour problems and improving student motivation in the classroom.

The ideas are easy to implement and work FAST. I've spent the last 10 years teaching these techniques and concepts to literally THOUSANDS of teachers and lecturers in schools and colleges all over the world and their comments on this site should convince you that this system works.