Product Description

This practical, authoritative guide to creating calm classes and focused, co-operative students is aimed at both primary and secondary teachers.

In clear, concise language, supported by helpful illustrations, this pocketbook looks at what makes effective teachers. It considers different styles of classroom management, patterns and types of behaviour and offers a range of core principles and key strategies for dealing with everyday scenarios. Teachers will welcome practical examples of real responses to real situations and respond warmly to helpful advice about managing themselves as well as their charges.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2698 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Times Educational Supplement, April 23, 2004
Here's a distillation of practical and philosophically sound guidance on effective discipline...A first-rate addition to an impressive series.

Synopsis
How to manage their classes is not only every new teacher's first concern, it's also an area about which even the most experienced teachers are never complacent. This practical, authoritative guide to creating calm classes and focused, co-operative students is aimed at both primary and secondary teachers. In clear, concise language, supported by helpful illustrations, the new pocketbook looks at what makes effective teachers. It considers different styles of classroom management, patterns and types of behaviour and offers a range of core principles and key strategies for dealing with everyday scenarios. Teachers will welcome practical examples of real responses to real situations and respond warmly to helpful advice about managing themselves as well as their charges.

About the Authors
Peter Hook and Andy Vass are two of the foremost trainers in behaviour management in the UK. They have close to 60 years' teaching experience between them.
Peter has developed a national reputation for inspirational and empowering workshops and has worked with over 800 schools, LEAs, Educational Services Connexions Teams and PGCE courses in the past few years. He is a consultant to both the DfES and TTA on behaviour management and contributed to the KS3 Strategy.

Andy now combines work in school with training, consultancy and writing. He has worked with more than 600 schools and LEAs in the UK and abroad. His entertaining workshops combine highly practical behaviour management skills with valuable insights into language and powerful communication. He is a member of the European Therapy Studies Institute with a private practice specialising in working with adolescents and adults experiencing depression, trauma and performance-related anxiety. He also lectures for Mindfields College, the leading training organisation for health professionals outside the NHS.

Customer Reviews

Behaviour Management Pocketbook
The whole set of these pocketbooks are great. I liked this one as it offers great advice, in simple language. It gives you ready to use ideas and really makes you think about obtaining the positive out of many situations and so much of it from the language that we use. Some of the ideas are a little stomach turningly cheesy and seem exhausting when we are usually already tired, but on the whole a useful little book.

Some real nuggets here
Peter Hook came and spoke to us on INSET last year and went through many of the strategies used in this book. This is not an encyclopedia, or a long investigation into the reasons behind poor classroom behaviour, but it is a pcoket book -I keep mine in my classroom desk drawer - which is packed with simple, straightforward and practical advice. Excellent examples of the Language of Choice to use. Invaluable.

Practical Advice
An excellent and extremely practical book that deals with the subtle issue of behaviour management. Peter Hook is an expert in this field and provides lots of useful advice to equip teachers with the right "tools" for the job. Recommended for anyone embarking on their teaching career.