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How being positive can improve behaviour management, help learners learn better, and make teachers happier in the classroom.

Month: February 2018

Written by strictlypositiveblogFebruary 18, 2018February 27, 2019

6 ways of building positive relationships with students.

There are many broad starting points for building positive classroom relationships between teachers and students based on trust and encouragement.   1. Never pretend to be perfect. Don’t pretend to know everything, or to get everything right. Apologise for mistakes. Cultivate an atmosphere where it is not shameful to make mistakes. In fact, I would […]

Written by strictlypositiveblogFebruary 15, 2018

How to ensure that every student participates in every lesson.

All students need to be treated equitably.   This emphatically does not mean that all students should be treated the same. But all students should feel that they are fairly treated in the classroom, and part of that is that they should all feel that the teacher is including them in the lesson.   There […]

Written by strictlypositiveblogFebruary 14, 2018

4 positive qualities to model to your learners.

1. Be polite: Be polite to everyone, including the most annoying student in the most annoying class, the one which you have come to dread when you see it on your timetable, the class which makes your stomach clench as you see them lining outside the room. If you have a quick wit and a […]

Written by strictlypositiveblogFebruary 12, 2018February 12, 2018

6 easy wins at the classroom door.

As every teacher knows, your behaviour management starts at the moment in which your students see you. Particularly important are the routines which you set at the classroom door. It goes without saying that every lesson is a clean sheet as far as behaviour management is concerned. Whatever happened in the last lesson, however badly […]

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