If can often feel like you are fighting a losing battle when you’re attempting to manage and encourage students who refuse to start their work or maintain focus. When you’re trying to encourage
CONTINUE READING...Having an effective strategy for dealing with low-level disruptions is KEY to successful Classroom Management for any teacher. This sort of disruption can be like water torture to the teacher, that incessant
CONTINUE READING...I've just uploaded a new video to Youtube on putting a classroom management plan together.Having a classroom management plan in place is fundamental to developing calm confidence in the classroom and I've
CONTINUE READING...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
CONTINUE READING...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
CONTINUE READING...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
CONTINUE READING...Here are some ways of improving praise so that it creates the kind of positive changes you want to see in your challenging students… Effective Praise Enhancer # 1: Make it SPECIFIC. Let’s make a concerted
CONTINUE READING...Hi there! A few years ago I put together a short e-guide titled '25 ways to Get Silence From Noisy Students'. It has been downloaded THOUSANDS of times by teachers all over the world. You can GET YOUR
CONTINUE READING...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
CONTINUE READING...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
CONTINUE READING...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
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