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

Month: May 2018

Written by strictlypositiveblogMay 30, 2018February 14, 2019

4 steps to creating a positive classroom environment.

Get your classroom relationships right. Then you can… Get your behaviour management right. Then you can… Teach your lesson. And… Don’t take it personally. Teaching is a profession; it is a job. The relationships which we have in the classroom are professional relationships, not personal ones, and as such need to be managed carefully and […]

Written by strictlypositiveblogMay 30, 2018May 30, 2018

The Singaporean way of keeping teachers motivated & in the classroom.

I recently wrote a post about why I am leaving the teaching profession, and one of the reasons I cited was that I did not feel that the structure currently in place valued older, more experienced teachers. This may be one of the reasons why the profession is being drained of experience, and we now […]

Written by strictlypositiveblogMay 23, 2018May 23, 2018

Passing on knowledge through student expertise

We all know that reciprocal teaching is an effective way of reinforcing knowledge and empowering students. At sixth form particularly there are many opportunities for allowing young people to deepen their expertise and feel like the masters of their subjects that they are trying to become. A positive teacher is wise enough to harness these […]

Written by strictlypositiveblogMay 15, 2018May 15, 2018

Why this older teacher is leaving the profession.

The Guardian reports that older teachers are leaving the profession in droves and draining it of expertise. These are my reasons: 1. Teachers who don’t want to be managers are under-rated. Teaching is a profession in which an entrant can quickly establish themselves and quickly move up the hierarchy and into management. This is one […]

Written by strictlypositiveblogMay 8, 2018May 12, 2018

What sales reps can teach about altering behaviour.

I think I’ve mentioned before that I started my career in sales and marketing. At that time as part of our sales training we were taught a number of ‘closes’, which should be deployed at the time when the customer was getting near to making a decision and just needed a nudge over the line. […]

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