Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5788 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.

About the Author
Authors Peter Hook and Andy Vass, nationally renowned experts in the field of behaviour management, are consultants to the DfES and TTA as well as numerous schools and LEAs. Their practical, inspirational ideas are firmly grounded in classroom experience. Consequently, they work.

Customer Reviews

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.

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.

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.