Getting the Buggers to Behave

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Sue is the best selling author of twenty books for teachers and parents, including Getting the Buggers to Behave, Teaching Skills for Dummies and How to Survive your First Year in Teaching.

Very helpful in providing snippets of supporting and contrasting arguments for my behaviour essay, although it doesn't focus on any particular models or theories and is mostly advice and opinion. This book is rich and realistic: rich in the array of strategies and examples that work, and realistic in that it is based on vivid examples of how youngsters misbehave. As a trainee secondary science teacher, this book has elevated the weakest part of my practice (behaviour management) more than any lecturing or coaching can do. Containing material for primary teachers, as well as teaching tips, lesson ideas, and a directory, this book shows how learning a language can be fun. If your two-year-olds are ignoring you, your Year 11s are distracted, or your tutor group is not-so-quietly chaotic then this is the book for you!As a new or aspiring teacher, this book is a good introduction into classroom and teaching techniques to help you keep control of both your class and, importantly, yourself. The advice ranges from the basics of behaviour management to 'how to deal with the class from hell' and is applicable whether you are working in the early years, primary, secondary or further education with level specific examples in every chapter. Sue’s primary aim through her work is to give practical, realistic and honest advice to teachers and parents. This book will go onto the recommended reading for both secondary geography and Primary Ed 5-11 with QTS. Through the training courses that she runs, Sue puts across her ideas about teaching and behaviour management in a fun and engaging format.

Although this book covers a range of educational settings, you can definitely pull enough out for use in the primary school. Really helpful for beginning (and possibly established teachers) to get a foundation for behaviour management. The title is a good enough indication of the thoughtful reflection that has gone into tbe writing of this book.

A key part of Sue’s work is in providing training in positive behaviour management for schools and colleges around the UK and in Europe. The ideas and advice given are based on common sense observations and strategies that have worked for the author. THE MUST-HAVE BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT BIBLE "Show the students the can of dog food, open it up and then eat from it. Getting Your Class to Behave is the positive, practical answer to poor behaviour you've been looking for! Noted the possibility of kids suffering abuse as an afterthought, rather than an important thing to look out for.