Cracking the Hard Class

Description

In this second edition Bill Rogers, master of behaviour management, shows us that being and effective teacher isn’t a result of God given gifts of charisma and presence, but can be developed through a series of specific skills and actions.

At some point in every teacher’s career, he/she will encounter the ‘hard class’. But as demanding as it may be, a difficult class does not have to dominate .

Bill Rogers highlights many practical strategies that can be implemented to overcome the ‘hard class’ These include:

• identifying what makes a class ‘hard’
• developing a class behaviour plan
• developing colleague support
• following up on disruptive students
• changing patterns of disruptive behaviour
• assisting the relief teachers and the hard class

In this comprehensive second edition,  Bill also addresses the crucial nature of the establishment phase of the year: that critical first meeting with our class. Strategies and skills for addressing attentional and confrontational behaviour are addressed at length in a practical and engaging way.