Blog – Page 4 – Needs Focused Teaching

Student Engagement – What’s Stopping You?

22nd March 2012
/ General Lesson Improvement Motivating students
/ 52 COMMENTS

Hi,In around ten days time, on April 1st, I'm going to run a series of private (free) webinars explaining some great ideas (and a very simple formula) you can use to raise student engagement in your lessons.

Improve your teaching in 1 hour? Here’s how to become a more confident teacher…

13th January 2012
/ General

Whether you like to admit it or not, if you aren’t enjoying the success you would like in your teaching career it almost certainly comes down to just ONE thing – a lack of confidence. Now,

Classroom Management Strategies to Get Support From Unsupportive Parents

Before trying to find solutions to any problem it’s a good idea to look at the reasons why the problem is occurring; knowing why a problem is happening gives clues as to how to address it. Today we’re

Getting support from hard-to-reach parents

21st November 2011
/ General
/ 26 COMMENTS

Hi All, I will be releasing a Special Report later this week on ways to get support from hard-to-reach parents and I want to make sure I’ve covered all the bases. To help me put the finishing touches

Effective use of consequences as a behaviour management strategy

16th November 2011
/ Classroom Management Videos
/ 17 COMMENTS

If you liked this video and would like to know how to apply consequences in a stepped, logical way which students RESPECT... be sure to try the complete suite of Needs Focused Classroom Management

Classroom Management Strategies To Get Students Back On Task

My teacher used to chuck a board rubber at me when he caught me talking or messing around in the classroom. You’d get in serious trouble if you did that now so teachers have to have other (better) classroom

A bit of preaching and a behaviour management freebie to get your class quiet

I know, I know, you’ve heard this one before; I harp on about it often enough. But for the benefit of new visitors and seeing as though winter will soon be bringing those dark gloomy days in the

Can you spot me? (and what has this to do with behaviour management?)

7th June 2011
/ General
/ 23 COMMENTS

Hi Everyone. I won’t let the secret out just yet – if you think you know which of the scary looking schoolboys is me just leave a comment below. The reason I’ve put this photo here is to alert you

Building Relationships and classroom community

11th March 2011
/ General
/ 68 COMMENTS

We all know that building relationships with students is a powerful (and essential) preventive strategy. We all know it’s important but actually doing it is another thing. How do we build relationships?

Free Webinar Replay

28th February 2011
/ General
/ 6 COMMENTS

Live webinar – interested?

5th December 2010
/ General
/ 98 COMMENTS

Hi everyone,I am considering running a series of live webinars (free) on various aspects of behaviour management and motivating students - but it depends on the response.The webinars would consist of

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.