Am I saying that kids and cars are the same - or what?
I didn't have room to explain fully in the heading. I mean it but it's only how you learn to manage children's behaviour and how you learn to drive your car - not how both look! Learning the skills are much the same and if you don't learn correctly the results can be very damaging.
What I mean is that to learn any skill you have to learn what to do, then go and practise what you've learned and after that continue to do it - it's that simple. So, learn the techniques, practise until you're confident and use them consistently, all the time.
Think about what happens if you don't follow the simple rules of skill building when applied to driving your car. If you stop driving and steering the car either stops or doesn't go where you want it to go. If you don't have the right level of skill then you could crash and cause mayhem. If you have started learning the skill but fail to carry out the rules consistently, again chaos will reign. The same applies to managing children in the classroom.
So why are so many people struggling with managing classroom behaviour? The answer is simple - there isn't sufficient behaviour management training of a good standard. Student teachers, support workers, dinner supervisors, through to those with years of experience and into management positions - none of them with enough knowledge and expertise in managing children's problem behaviour.
Another problem is that often the people offering advice haven't got the skills themselves. Who would you want to teach you to drive? Would it be someone who drives every day and has a good record of getting people through their driving test? Or would you prefer someone who rarely (or never) drives, who couldn't show you how to drive, and could only tell you what you already know?
I know, it sounds crazy. But, so many reports I see are full of inaccurate advice about managing children's behaviour. So often I tell schools to ignore the advice they've been given. Wrong advice is as damaging as having the non-driver teaching you driving skills. Car crashes are caused by lack of driving skills. Children's and adults' health is being damaged because the lack of behaviour management skills.
How am I different? Well, I manage children's behaviour every day. Teachers and students come and watch me. I show them the techniques in their classes. People asked me to write it all down, so Behaviour Bible is the result. People's views on what I say and how I've helped them learn to manage behaviour is there to see.
The message is that classrooms shouldn't be chaotic and that you can learn to manage children's behaviour, exactly the same as you learned driving skills .... - 31963
I didn't have room to explain fully in the heading. I mean it but it's only how you learn to manage children's behaviour and how you learn to drive your car - not how both look! Learning the skills are much the same and if you don't learn correctly the results can be very damaging.
What I mean is that to learn any skill you have to learn what to do, then go and practise what you've learned and after that continue to do it - it's that simple. So, learn the techniques, practise until you're confident and use them consistently, all the time.
Think about what happens if you don't follow the simple rules of skill building when applied to driving your car. If you stop driving and steering the car either stops or doesn't go where you want it to go. If you don't have the right level of skill then you could crash and cause mayhem. If you have started learning the skill but fail to carry out the rules consistently, again chaos will reign. The same applies to managing children in the classroom.
So why are so many people struggling with managing classroom behaviour? The answer is simple - there isn't sufficient behaviour management training of a good standard. Student teachers, support workers, dinner supervisors, through to those with years of experience and into management positions - none of them with enough knowledge and expertise in managing children's problem behaviour.
Another problem is that often the people offering advice haven't got the skills themselves. Who would you want to teach you to drive? Would it be someone who drives every day and has a good record of getting people through their driving test? Or would you prefer someone who rarely (or never) drives, who couldn't show you how to drive, and could only tell you what you already know?
I know, it sounds crazy. But, so many reports I see are full of inaccurate advice about managing children's behaviour. So often I tell schools to ignore the advice they've been given. Wrong advice is as damaging as having the non-driver teaching you driving skills. Car crashes are caused by lack of driving skills. Children's and adults' health is being damaged because the lack of behaviour management skills.
How am I different? Well, I manage children's behaviour every day. Teachers and students come and watch me. I show them the techniques in their classes. People asked me to write it all down, so Behaviour Bible is the result. People's views on what I say and how I've helped them learn to manage behaviour is there to see.
The message is that classrooms shouldn't be chaotic and that you can learn to manage children's behaviour, exactly the same as you learned driving skills .... - 31963
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