Secret Teacher: leaders can't afford to forget behaviour management basics

Everyone at school has a duty to respect the rules of behavior management, especially senior management teams

"Wait! Stop talking! Wait! Shut up! "The voice in my head is screaming.

Imagine the scene in our school hall:. 300 students sat in groups of tutoring course alongside their friends, and there is a buzz of murmurs and whispers in the room

my rant silently in my head - "Wait! Hush" - And I know that the only person in liquidation me, it is because this rant is not directed to students . It is assumed that a member of our management team and pastoral director, was at the front, they talk about students. They are not heard by the vast majority of students, but still.

Try returning students was a farce, and finally the group throughout the year (and support teachers) are punished and remained in place after the end of the hood. I served my sentence in silence, but if I had been able to produce steam that would have been out of my ears.

Managing student behavior is part of our work, and punish students who were in my opinion very unfair. The administrator has no pastoral experience teaching (now that's another rant), has not given any public speech or behavior management training (oh, and another) so I can forgive him a little, but I can not believe that SLT ads just went ahead despite the fact that students were still talking.

This is not a case of "people in glass houses do not throw stones" - I know I have to work on behavior management and probably always will. But the fact that I know that it is something positive, and I remember every day when I'm in front of a classroom full of students.

• The first thing you learn as an intern is expected. Students have to queue outside the room, waiting for an answer, wait until the feathers must be sacrificed, is waiting to get their books and the list goes on. However, the largest and most important "hold" all is "waiting for the silence." Sometimes the wait for silence can seem like an eternity, but whatever the length of time you must wait, never speak until the silence and absolute. Start talking, while the group is not silent is a sign that you are not in total control, and students to identify and exploit this weakness. TSL should know, they taught long ago. Have they forgotten everything he learned?

Is this really the problem: TSL are teaching conditions and mutually exclusive? The. Further up the greasy pole climbs, the more you move away from the front line of teaching, I sincerely believe that behavior management strategies should be implemented, they must be adapted and improved for different students and s If they are not teaching, how the devil to learn what works, and especially what does not work with your current cohort?

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rapid decline in this age group is the talk of the staff room, especially among our new teachers, and from what I have seen students given an inconsistent message in terms of what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior. This inconsistency means that some of them try to push the boundaries. I know that the school management is complex, and because of this complexity, it is easy to forget simple things SLT but essential. Never forget that effective performance management is essential - it can be a serious obstacle to learning. If we allow this to happen, we do not favor students and in the worst case, could mean that some of them will not reach their potential, and unless we stop the rot could lose some teachers discourage profession.

We, and I mean everyone who calls himself a master, and includes SLT enough obstacles to overcome, and we must remember to put first things first: the management of behavior has to be at the top of our list.
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