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Seven Ways to Get Students to Follow Your Instructions

i) Make sure you have their full attention before giving instructions Make sure they are looking at you and not fiddling with a pencil, turning around, looking at a book, etc. One quite ingenious

19 ways to get silence from a noisy group of students

12th February 2013
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If you struggle to get your students’ attention during lessons I’ve put together a nifty collection of ideas which may help. This sample of classroom management strategies is an extract from my

25 classroom management strategies to get silence from a noisy group of students

12th February 2013
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If you struggle to get your students’ attention during lessons I’ve put together a nifty collection of ideas which may help. This sample of classroom management strategies has been taken from the

Student Engagement Strategies

9th April 2012
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Hellooooo!I recently ran a competition for our Student Engagement Formula. Entrants had to leave their favourite student engagement strategies in the comment box below to win full access to our comprehensive

ONE WORD that’s guaranteed to increase student engagement

3rd April 2012
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Yes, it’s true. This one, single word really can get ALL your students interested and engaged. Interested? Well, rather than tell you what that word is here, I’m going to direct you to a free

Student Engagement – What’s Stopping You?

22nd March 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.