Taking Care of Behaviour: Practical Skills for Learning Support and Teaching Assistants (The Essential Guides)

✍ Scribed by Paul Dix

• Publisher: Pearson Longman
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Series: The Essential Guides
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This practical guide covers current guidelines and revised HLTA policies and is designed to help teaching assistants and other support staff deal with behaviour in the classroom. The author focuses on the reader's own conduct as a starting point for behaviour management; this text will account for the various circumstances in which a Teaching Assistant may have to manage behaviour, and will also provide advice on working with the class teacher. The book is full of key ideas and useful activities and exercises and can help develop exisiting skills as well as build confidence. The author refrains from using negative terminology and a 'them and us' approach, and consequently has been praised for presenting practical advice whilst adopting a positive approach. The book appeals equally to both primary and secondary school staff, and also contains a great deal of information which is relevant to other non-teaching staff.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
About the author......Page 7
Preface......Page 8
Introduction......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Part 1 Managing Behaviour in the Classroom......Page 14
Things to Think About Before You Start......Page 16
Managing Your Own Behaviour: Emotionally Secure Relationships......Page 20
Consistency and Certainty......Page 28
Learning Rituals, Habits and Routines......Page 42
Language......Page 52
Intelligent Use of Praise and Reward......Page 64
When Students Break the Rules: Applying Sanctions......Page 72
Part 2 Advanced Behaviour Management Strategies......Page 84
Managing Confrontation and Stopping it from Escalating......Page 86
Proactively Developing Relationships with ‘Hard to Reach’ Students......Page 94
Building Mutual Trust......Page 104
Part 3 Collaborating with Other Adults......Page 112
Seeking Support: Why, When and How......Page 114
Teaching Partnerships: Collaborative Approaches with the Class Teacher......Page 122
Involving Parents......Page 132
Part 4 Specific Situations......Page 140
Managing Extreme Behaviour......Page 142
Withdrawing a Small Group......Page 162
Managing Behaviour Around the Site......Page 170
Working in Schools in Special Measures and Extreme Circumstances......Page 178
Afterword......Page 186
Bibliography......Page 187
Index......Page 188
Licensing Agreement......Page 193