Okay, I know what you’re thinking: “Strictly Positive Teaching” – there are three words that don’t belong together. Firstly, you can either be strict or positive; you are either a strict tyrannical teacher, or you are a positive Pollyanna. The Tyrant Given the choice, most teachers would probably opt for being the tyrannical teacher. Tyrants […]
Children want attention. In fact, children need attention just as grass needs rain. If they cannot get positive attention, negative attention will do. So in the Strictly Positive Teacher’s classrooms there are endless opportunities to gain positive attention, and no opportunities at all for negative attention. Why do they need attention? Lets go back a […]
“It’s just looking at things from a different perspective…” So began my pitch to the senior leadership team when I decided that I wanted the chance to roll out the behaviour management techniques which had worked so well for me for a decade to the rest of our staff. And as soon as the words […]
