Running the Room: The Teacher's Guide to Behaviour

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The premise was simple: could an individual from one area pass as proficient in another, as judged by an expert panel? A vicar 'became' a car dealer, a house painter a conceptual artist, a bicycle courier a polo player, and so on. I don't think they ever tried to turn someone into a teacher, but at the time I was waiting for that programme to be made. 'Running the room', is the title of Tom Bennett's new book ('the teacher's guide to behaviour'), and it would have been fun seeing the trainers preparing a total novice to ‘run’ a classroom. For experts, this is second nature; for anyone else, it can be a terrifying prospect:

Save Greg Santucci - Supporting Behaviour in the Classroom to your collection. Share Greg Santucci - Supporting Behaviour in the Classroom with your friends. After reading the book, I am more confident that these routines support my students’ learning. I’m going to go further this term and trial practising the routines more regularly. So instead of going through them at the start of the term, going through them at least twice a term. The book emphasised that routines need to be taught, practised and re-taught BEFORE a problem occurs. Don’t wait for an issue to arise to re-teach a routine. Tom writes and speaks beautifully and with flair, and can make any topic come to life with humour and flow. This is very much the case in his latest book, “ Running the room”. Where his DfE behaviour report was about the behavioural principles at a whole school level, there is more focus in this book on what goes on inside the individual classroom. The value of 'scripts' (preparing in advance what you want to say, so that you can lean on these when under pressure, such as when phoning a parent for a difficult conversation).

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It’s all presented in a very amenable fashion. He is clear up right up front: “ None of this makes me any better than a good teacher in any school.” He also shares brilliant anecdotes from his time on the front line, like this one: Some common behaviour myths' include: 'Some people have got it' ('the sin of essentialism - that teaching is an innate gift rather than something can be learned') and 'Kids need love, not boundaries' ('They need both. Boundaries without love is tyranny but love without boundaries is indulgence'). Save Running the Room: Better behaviour for school teachers to your collection. Share Running the Room: Better behaviour for school teachers with your friends.I’ve always been a big fan of routines and Running the Room reaffirmed this practice for me. Explicit routines prevent behaviour problems from arising and helps create the class culture and norms. My classes have routines for starting a lesson, ending a lesson, entering different classrooms, how to transition between activities, etc. I have sometimes thought I was going overboard with the routines in terms of their detail and how we actually acted them out. E.g. We would practise how to line up, enter the classroom, etc. We go through these routines and practice them at the start of every term. In this session, Tom Bennett, DfE behaviour advisor and founder of researchED, discusses the habits and strategies of the most successful classroom practitioners. From his interest in strengthtraining, Will received his qualification as a Strength and Conditioning Coach from the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association. This helps him program strength training in and out of the gym to help his clients become stronger and more resilient. Are you new to running? Not sure which shoes you should be wearing? Need tips or have questions about your gear? We are here to help!

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Be organised and plan ahead so that it is easy for students to behave and hard for them to misbehave.

Like many people Luke turned to running during COVID and has been hooked ever since. He saw a massive change in his own physical and mental health, as well as the positive changes that outdoor exercise was having on the wider community during a tough time. We must act respectfully towards the vast plurality of value systems from which our students emerge ... it does mean teaching them to appreciate that the classroom - your classroom - has its own culture, and that here, if nowhere else, these specific values and beliefs should be held, and demonstrated through behaviour. It is specific to the space in which you teach.'Throughout, the concept of firefighting is used to demonstrate the need to make behaviour strategies preventative – to be proactive rather than reactive when it comes to poor behaviour. The unifying thread of the text is that prevention is better than cure – that “a fence at the top of a cliff is preferable to an ambulance at the bottom”. Save Understanding Childrens Brains and Behaviour to your collection. Share Understanding Childrens Brains and Behaviour with your friends.