Discipline can be the hardest part of a demanding job. Daily, teachers face defiance, baiting, procrastination, argumentative behaviour, swearing and aggression, as well as the more typical disruptive behaviours like calling out and task avoidance. You Know the Fair Rule acknowledges the real difficulties in dealing with these behaviour patterns. Providing practical advice, it includes: * a range of practical strategies and skills that can be used to motivate and guide pupils * how to follow up with students beyond the classroom * working with behaviourally disordered pupils * working with the difficult class and Attention Deficit Disorder Providing practical classroom strategies for use both in individual classes and across the school, You Know the Fair Rule will be welcomed by those who take on the most demanding jobs of all - teaching.

You Know the Fair Rule

Education & Teaching

Rogers, Bill

Schools & Teaching

Financial Times/Prentice Hall

Outdoor Inquiries offers approaches to help students become skilled at asking their own questions, gathering their own data and analyzing it for themselves-to become real inquirers. We recommend it to all of our teachers. -Lynn Rankin Director, Institute for Inquiry, Exploratorium The book is a great treasure for all science educators. -Hubert Dyasi City College of New York Here'ssome advice for teachers looking for science instruction to supplement their science textbooks and kits: Take it outside! Conducting science investigations beyond the four walls of the classroom is one of the best ways for young people to develop scientific thinking and to practice gathering and analyzing their own data. Outdoor Inquiries is the clear, concise handbook that shows you how. Outdoor Inquiries takes you step by step through guiding intermediate and middle level students to new and deeper understandings of scientific content, thinking, and procedures. From smart, pragmatic advice-including how to select an appropriate site for investigation, what to bring with you, and how to ensure student safety-to powerful, detailed lesson plans, suggestions for cross-curricular integration, and useful ideas for assessment, Outdoor Inquiries offers everything you need to get started. It outlines five interrelated strategies to use with students as they investigate their local environment: <ul>
<li>journal keeping </li>
<li>mapping </li>
<li>collection making </li>
<li>field-guide development </li>
<li>behavior study. </li>
</ul> In addition, detailed classroom vignettes from a variety of settings demonstrate how each inquiry strategy helps your students meet several recommendations of the National Science Education Standards by engaging them in: <ul>
<li>close observation </li>
<li>long-term data gathering </li>
<li>the generation of thoughtful questions </li>
<li>data analysis. </li>
</ul> Step outside the usual kit-based science instruction. Nurture the inquiries of your science learners by helping them apply critical thinking skills to the real world as they make meaningful connections to their natural, dynamic local environment. Use Outdoor Inquiries and discover that when it comes to teaching science, the natural world can be your most effective instructional tool.

Outdoor Inquiries: Taking Science Investigations Outside the Classroom

McGlashan, Patricia

Gasser, Kristen

Dow, Peter

Hartney, David

Science & Math

Heinemann

Focusing on discipline in the school classroom, this provides a range of strategies and practical skills to use in order to motivate and guide pupils. It looks at the difficulties of dealing with poor behaviour and shows how to make this job easier. Aimed at primary and secondary staff.

You Know the Fair Rule: Strategies for Making the Hard Job of Discipline in School Easier

Pearson Professional Education

Revised edition of best-seller   This second edition gives teachers an educational model for teaching behavior specifically to those children based on whole-school support

Behaviour Recovery: A Whole-school Programme for Mainstream Schools

Classroom Behaviour: A Practical Guide to Effective Teaching, Behaviour Management and Colleague Support

Classroom Behaviour explores the relationship between effective teaching, behavior management, discipline and colleague support.

Paul Chapman Educational Publishing

Effective Supply Teaching: Behaviour Management, Classroom Discipline and Colleague Support

Bill Rogers addresses the issues important to supply teachers (substitute teachers) and identifies the skills necessary for handling the demands they face.

Sage Publications Ltd.

Bill Rogers addresses the issues important to supply teachers (substitute teachers) and identifies the skills necessary for handling the demands they face.

At some point in every teacher′s career they will encounter the `hard class′ and from day one the countdown to the end of the day, term and year is on in earnest. But as demanding as it may be, a difficult class does not have to dominate and permeate through all waking moments. Bill Rogers, in Cracking the Hard Class, highlights many practical strategies that can be implemented to overcome the hard class syndrome.  These include: identifying what makes a class `hard′; developing a class behaviour plan; developing colleague support; following up on disruptive students; changing patterns of bad behaviour; assisting relief teachers and the hard class.  As well as constructive ideas and strategies, Cr

Cracking the Hard Class: Strategies for Managing the Harder than Average Class

Pressure on teachers is increasing. Bureaucrats, economists, parent groups and students are all placing extra emphasis on teacher accountability and performance. Adding to this pressure are rising concerns about student behaviour. This difficult problem is having a marked effect on the stress levels and self-esteem of teachers. As more schools focus their attention on developing whole-school strategies for dealing with student behaviour, the need for a book to support teachers as they strive to develop a behaviour management policy is evident. Bill Rogers, who has many years of international experience of working on behaviour management, offers practical suggestions. He describes positive discipline and the importance o

Behaviour Management: A Whole-School Approach

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You Know the Fair Rule

Outdoor Inquiries: Taking Science Investigations Outside the Classroom

You Know the Fair Rule: Strategies for Making the Hard Job of Discipline in School Easier

Behaviour Recovery: A Whole-school Programme for Mainstream Schools

Classroom Behaviour: A Practical Guide to Effective Teaching, Behaviour Management and Colleague Support

Classroom Behaviour: A Practical Guide to Effective Teaching, Behaviour Management and Colleague Support

Effective Supply Teaching: Behaviour Management, Classroom Discipline and Colleague Support

Effective Supply Teaching: Behaviour Management, Classroom Discipline and Colleague Support

Cracking the Hard Class: Strategies for Managing the Harder than Average Class

Behaviour Management: A Whole-School Approach