What do teachers really need to know (and do) to confidently mitigate, address, and resolve the sheer volume and complexity of challenging classroom behaviours they face?
In It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management, educator Claire English answers this very question. Behaviour isnt ever just about the behaviour itself and effective behaviour management isn’t about simply responding to a behaviour. It is about thinking through:
*the why behind the behaviour,
*the what is going on in the body and the brain, and
*the how you can proactively craft your pedagogy and practice to support the wellbeing, development and educational experience of all students.
This book explores behaviour and classroom management through a holistic and best practice approach. It is driven by engaging and relatable narratives, grounded in research and delivers essential, actionable, and highly relevant professional learning on behaviour management. Claire empowers you to take the action you can take when you walk into your classroom. To feel supported, confident and equipped to turn your own space into an island of safety and support for each one of your students. To know that, when challenging behaviours inevitably pop up, you’ll be able to respond to them effectively and calmly. Allowing you to do the job that you got into the profession to do, and do it damn well. To teach.
Claire English is an experienced Australian secondary English teacher and senior leader, specialising in supporting students with complex social, emotional and mental health needs. Over the past decade, she has worked in some of the most challenging learning environments across the United Kingdom and Australia, transforming incredibly volatile, chaotic and unproductive spaces, into places of safety, support and learning. Now, through her own behaviour management courses, Claire has supported and empowered hundreds of teachers worldwide to do the same. Claire supports teachers everyday demonstrating her deep passion for creating empowered, happy and confident teachers, who create calm, happy and successful students.
1. Introduction 2. Pillar 1: Be Curious 3. Pillar 2: Be Calm 4. Pillar 3: Be Compassionate 5. Pillar 4: Be Consistent 6. Pillar 5: Be Clear 7. Pillar 6: Be Challenging 8. Pillar 7: Be Connected
If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a classroom full of tricky secondary students, wondering why your usual strategies aren’t working, Claire English’s It’s Never Just About the Behaviour is well worth a read. Written in a warm, relatable style, this book draws you in from the start and feels like you are having a chat with a colleague who really gets it.
Review from Yvonne Harvey, Heathdale Christian College Principal of Primary - Werribee Campus
