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Manage challenging classroom behaviour more easily
This DVD helps you understand challenging behaviour in a classroom situation and shows you how to apply this knowledge to develop a calm and confident teacher response.
Using different styles of approach you learn how to:
· adapt your body language and verbal language
·use personal space for best effect
·develop your own self-calming strategies in managing difficult behaviours
Section 1
looks at typical styles of approach and helps you:
• understand the link between emotions and behaviour
• understand how this drives behaviour in different circumstances
• explore instinctive responses and self-calming techniques
Section 2
demonstrates passive and hostile styles of approach and response, including passive verbal and body language, speed of approach, pleading, threatening and giving up.
Section 3
focuses on personal space and moving in – and the effect on both the emotion and the behaviour of teacher and pupil. You explore:
• how to use social space, personal space and intimate space
• how to use eye contact
• how to gain attention and take an appropriate calm stance when close to a pupil
Section 4
demonstrates the key points to remember for a calm and confident manner, including the concept of ‘muscle memory’ – for a natural, automatic teacher response.
Section 5
concludes with a question and answer session with the studio audience, including some key ‘What if’ questions.
Total running time: 60 minutes.
INTERACTIVE SKILLS FOR TEACHERS
- DVD only £75 + VAT
- By David Stott