Page 48: Top Three Behaviour Management Techniques as a student Teacher on Placement ...
Behaviour management is a huge topic. For many trainee and qualified teachers, upon reflecting on lesson observation feedback, behaviour management and degrees of this often crop up. It is an area being continually worked on and developed and is ever changing in relation to your year group, class, schools behaviour policy and relationship with the children in the class.
There is obviously more than 3 techniques to be incorporated and used, but as a student, slotting into a school, adapting to their schemes whilst incorporating your own, I thought I would share three tips from areas I have learnt from, what has worked for me so far that I established and now use on my third/last placement:
1. Instant rewarding
This is one that I found super useful and effective whilst in the EYFS! Instant rewarding, I used predominantly stickers, but praise and positive language works too - it not only further encourages and rewards the pupil demonstrating the expected behaviour, but shares and promotes the desired behaviour to the best of the group. An ideal in 'good sitting, looking and listening' used in most EYFS settings. Additionally to this, instant rewarding is succesful when changing and adapting behaviour of those who are struggling. Te first time they show change, instant reward and reinforce and this makes a quick and effective change! For me, if all the pupils leave my group with for example 8 ,9,10 stickers it has been successful! You can never reward or encourage!
2. Use and incorporate your schools reward/consequence scheme
The best way to integrate into your school and prove a smooth and successful transition of being the teacher is to follow and use your schools reward and consequence scheme. Whether this is traffic lights, to class dojo's and reward assemblies, using the same scheme sets the expectation and boundaries for the pupils. Before you even begin your placement, this is something you can usually become familiar with as most school websites provide this information. You can then discuss with your mentor any specific schemes, sayings or routines they may have additionally so then from your very first step into that classroom you are consistent and in control.
3. Set your own expectation and postive reward scheme that is yours to support it
In hand with working and incorporating your school scheme into your lessons, I think it is also vital and necessary to have your own way to praise. I personally feel that it is not needed to have any own or additional 'consequences' behaviour management schemes as I believe positive reinforcements and having a happy and postive learning environments, with shared expectations is the most beneficial. I like to have my own reward scheme to supplement into the school to show that extra appreciation and support for their learning from my behalf which encourages them to share this back. An example in my BA2 EYFS placement was the creation of "Miss Yeoman's Special Sticker Box" which worked well alongside the classes stamp scheme. It worked well in group time sessions and supplementing instant rewarding too.
I personally find incorporating these into my teaching allows me to take control of my behaviour management being equally supported and reflected by the pupils, and able to work smoothly with the transition between yourself as the student teacher and the class teacher for the pupils. Having these, will allow the positive correlation and the ability to reflect on the effort and management the pupils will resultantly reciprocate. These are a few of my favourite and most used tips, that I hope you can find helpful too!
This is a key area that you will always build on and adapt throughout your training, and is a great area to refresh during any available CPD courses.
Over my first two years and now final year of my teacher training, I have personally noticed how my confidence and application has greatly grown in this area, I feel more in control and confident with behaviour management as well as rewarding. This quote regarding behaviour management and consistency, is perfect to sum up today's page:
"Classroom management is about one thing consistency" - Megan Dredge
- Miss Yeoman
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