Blog – Page 2 – Needs Focused Teaching

How to avoid getting drawn into secondary behaviours and backchat

13th June 2019
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Whenever you have to issue a consequence to a student you will almost certainly provoke some eye rolling, muttering, complaining and other secondary behaviours. Don’t get drawn into these attempts to

Why positive relationships could be the most effective tool in your classroom

9th June 2019
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As a teacher, you inevitably wear many hats. In the morning you may be a nurse and a counsellor but come the afternoon you’ll find yourself as a makeshift police officer and even a step-in Mum. All of

How to get students calm and settled at the door

6th June 2019
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In most disruptive classrooms the teacher focuses on what is going wrong and in this instance, it’s unruly behaviour that began before your students even walked through the door. It’s easy to constantly

3 ways to start conversations with students when they would rather not talk to you.

2nd June 2019
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It’s important to find out about your students’ interests so that you can build strong and meaningful relationships, but what happens if they don’t even want to talk to you? As well

Classroom management for 99c or 99p

4th February 2019
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Howdy folks,Take Control of the Noisy Class (my best-selling classroom management book has now been re-launched and I'm letting it go for 5 days at JUST 0.99p or 0.99C (depending where you are in the world).

Which cover for my book?

21st November 2018
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I have recently secured the rights back to one of my best-selling books from my publishers. It was a huge financial investment - one which will mean my daughter has to go without Christmas presents

28 Time-Saving Tips for Teachers

13th October 2018
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Create a block of time during free periods and other non-teaching time to handle paperwork. Schedule this in your planner and stick to it. Chatting with colleagues is an effective way to let off steam

Zen Productivity for Teachers

20th July 2018
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Zen Productivity & Time Management for Teachers – it’s a game changer. I came up with this recently by accident. I’ve been tidying up one of our rental properties at present with

This ONE WORD Guarantees INSTANT Student Engagement

1st March 2018
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Would you like to know about a teaching strategy you can use at the start of ANY lesson to gain instant engagement and participation from all your students? I can sum this strategy up in just ONE WORD.

6 Questioning Techniques To Guarantee Student Participation

22nd February 2018
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Six Questioning Techniques To Guarantee Student ParticipationIn this video recording, I interview my colleague Martin Renton on using different questioning techniques to improve student attainment, engagement

10 Quick Ways to Bring Humour to Your Classroom

26th January 2018
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Want some ideas for bringing humour into your classroom? Then look no further as we’ve 10 ideas for you right here!… 1. Tell your students to do the ‘Dying z’ whenever a question is too

5 Techniques for Learning Student Names Quickly!

23rd January 2018
/ Classroom Management Strategies Lesson Improvement Student Engagement Student/teacher relationships

Want a way to connect with your students? Then what better way than learning the names of your new students as quickly as possible. Here are 5 tips to help you achieve just that… 1. Name Chain Ask

Three MORE Ways to Make Praise More Effective

18th January 2018
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Way back in August 2017, we published a blog post titled ‘Three Ways to Make Praise More Effective’… Three Ways to Make Praise More Effective We received a lot of POSITIVE comments

Dealing with students who won’t complete homework

16th January 2018
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Getting students to complete homework is a typical problem for teachers – especially with students who lack motivation. If they’re not working in class where we can stand over them, they certainly

Dealing with students who have no interest in the lesson

18th September 2017
/ Classroom Management Strategies Lesson Improvement Motivating students Student/teacher relationships

A student who has no interest in lessons and anything you say and do, can have a terrible impact on the rest of the class. What you must remember however is that this student probably wants to succeed

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.