In a Class of Your Own: Managing Kids Behaviour

Gribble, Bill.

Description:

A pacey and enjoyable guide for teachers designed to help them improve their behaviour management skills. Emphasizing the need to maintain a positive approach - even when things get really tough - Bill Gribble writes in a down-to-earth and realistic way. This book should prove invaluable for all teachers.
Features:
* Bill Gribble is one of the country's leading experts on behaviour management and is organiser of numerous INSET days on managing pupils with behavioural difficulties.
* Gribble is tremendously experienced having worked in secure accommodation, residential education and was head teacher of a special school. He ran a pupil referral unit which was described as the best of its kind in the country and subsequently advised HMI on PRU inspection.
* Foreword by Bill Rogers. Bill Gribble is a leading expert on behaviour management and runs 50 INSET days a year on managing behaviour. Until recently he was a Senior Education Officer for an LEA before which he taught for over twenty years in Birmingham. Readership: Teachers, Support staff, Management staff.

Contents:
Foreword by Bill Rogers.
Introduction: Why me?
1. Beware experts.
2. Questions and desired outcomes.
3. What type of teacher are you?
4. Skills.
5. Control.
6. Transaction.
Conclusion.