Outstanding Behaviour Management in Secondary English Teaching

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This new course is designed to equip Secondary school English teachers with essential skills and strategies for effective behaviour management in the classroom. Whether new or highly experienced, attendees will explore practical techniques to create a positive learning environment, successfully manage challenging behaviour, and drive student engagement. Utilising the latest research, the course focuses on simple preparation, building proactive classroom routines and consistency, fostering strong teacher-student rapport, and developing a clear understanding of how behaviour impacts learning. By the end of this course, teachers will gain confidence in implementing effective behaviour management practices that promote a focused and inclusive learning atmosphere, tailored to the unique dynamics of English teaching.

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BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Understand drivers for challenging behaviour and develop strategies to build positive relationships with all students.
• Gain the knowledge and skills to effectively challenge a spectrum of challenging behaviour (from low level to obstructive).
• Learn simple strategies to prepare for positive behaviour, ensuring learning environments support learning.
• Develop a range of approaches to engaging students individually, in pairs, small groups and as a whole class.
• Understand how to set clear, engaging and motivating tasks.
• Develop approaches to apply with persistent behaviour challenges when nothing else works.

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PROGRAMME

Understanding Challenging Behaviour: The ‘Why’

10.00am

• Developing an understanding of how and why challenging behaviour occurs
• Focusing on the drivers of challenging behaviours
• Develop an understanding of what research tells us about student behaviour
• Learn about the contextual factors associated with challenging behaviour

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Student Recruitment

10.30am

• Evaluating existing practice to identify ineffective strategies
• Exploring ineffective behaviour strategies to better understand how to effectively respond
• Understanding the consequences of ineffective behaviour management
• Why do we make mistakes when managing behaviour? 

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Break

11.00am

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Preparation, Expectation and Engaging: Great Lesson Starts

11.15pm

• Evaluating the effectiveness of room layout and seating arrangements
• Developing a toolkit of strategies to instil great behaviour at the start of all lessons
• Engaging starter activities: a passport to removing early lesson challenge
• Building consistently positive relationships using early lesson interaction
• Developing exceptional lesson routines

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Lunch

12.30pm

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Practical Strategies: Removing Low Level Challenges

1.30pm

• Exploring a range of strategies to deal with low level behaviour quickly and permanently
• Evaluate best practice to re-engage the disengaged
• Understand and apply high-quality questioning strategies to focus all learners
• Developing a toolkit of strategies to support academic self-efficacy and student independence

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Break

2.15pm

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Understanding how to effectively utilise reward and sanction 

2.25pm

• Develop a series of strategies to effectively apply rewards and sanctions
• What doesn’t work? Evaluating rewards and sanctions and their consequences
• Understanding the psychology of rewards: best implementation, for less
• Analysing the role of peer relationships in great and challenging behaviour

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When nothing else works – strategies for apathy and refusal

2525pm

• Exploring options when nothing seems to engage
• Strategies and approaches to deal with the most challenging behaviour
• Sure-fire approaches to contain potentially lesson-ending scenarios
• Follow up and follow through – a range of strategies to ensure consistently positive behaviours over time

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Depart

3.30pm