The Behaviour Guru: Behaviour Management Solutions for Teachers - Softcover

Bennett, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441128603 ISBN 13: 9781441128607

Publisher: Continuum, 2010

Synopsis

Teaching isn't all about teaching; new teachers quickly realise that they need to be lion tamers too. Controlling a class isn't something that comes naturally to everyone - but it can be learned.

This no-nonsense guide tells teachers what the teacher training didn't, and offers instant strategies for dealing with the most common, and extreme, classroom scenarios.

Using his experiences of teaching in inner-city schools, as Behaviour Guru on the TES advice forum and working as a nightclub bouncer, Tom Bennett helps teachers, old and new, to assert their authority in the classroom.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Bennett is a teacher in East London, the chair of an independent group advising the Department of Education on behaviour, and the founder of the grass-roots and teacher-led researchED movement.

Review

'Using a wide range of examples from the chalk face, Tom Bennett's book is informative, entertaining, and at times confrontational. His pro-active approach to behaviour management is based on his experience in and outside the classroom and is firmly embedded in common sense.'
Julia Rowlandson, Education Consultant, Farnham, Surrey, UK

'Tom gives no-nonsense practical solutions to a huge range of classroom behaviour problems. This book is a great resource for all teachers - from NQTs through to HoDs.'
Gail Robinson, Community Producer, TES Connect, London, UK

'This is a very good book indeed, both timely and necessary.... Bennett writes with humour, style, understanding, a massive amount of common sense and not a little wisdom. And how often do you use those words in an educational context?' (Martin Spice Tes)

'Bennett has achieved something of particular value to new teachers; a jargon-free, unpatronising, highly browsable and accessible set of responses and suggested solutions to common classroom management issues...This is certainly a book that no self-respecting staff room or faculty office should be without.' (Journal of Trainee Teacher Research)

'a jargon-free, unpatronising, highly browsable and accessible set of responses and suggested solutions to common classroom management issues...if you want an instant answer without having to wade through pages of search results, other people's mis-spelled comments on the forum, or just a reminder that you are not alone in the big bad world of behaviour, you would do well to turn to this book which seems, like Mr Bennett himself (and perhaps that really annoying kid who sits near the back in 9X4), to have an answer for everything... a book that no self-respecting staff room or faculty office should be without... our Behaviour Guru hovers, like a guardian angel, ready to gently reassure, redirect and reintroduce classroom Zen.' Jenny Turner, Journal of Trainee Teacher Educational Research, UK

'This is a wonderful publication full of common sense and relevant advice for all involved in education.'

(The Teacher)

'Using a wide range of examples from the chalk face, Tom Bennett's book is informative, entertaining, and at times confrontational. His pro-active approach to behaviour management is based on his experience in and outside the classroom and is firmly embedded in common sense.’
Julia Rowlandson, Education Consultant, Farnham, Surrey, UK

'Tom gives no-nonsense practical solutions to a huge range of classroom behaviour problems. This book is a great resource for all teachers - from NQTs through to HoDs.’
Gail Robinson, Community Producer, TES Connect, London, UK

'This is a very good book indeed, both timely and necessary.... Bennett writes with humour, style, understanding, a massive amount of common sense and not a little wisdom. And how often do you use those words in an educational context?’ (Sanford Lakoff Tes)

'Bennett has achieved something of particular value to new teachers; a jargon-free, unpatronising, highly browsable and accessible set of responses and suggested solutions to common classroom management issues...This is certainly a book that no self-respecting staff room or faculty office should be without.’ (Sanford Lakoff)

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1441128603
• ISBN 13: 9781441128607
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240