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

Category: #inclusion

Written by strictlypositiveblogMay 20, 2019

Why being positive can sometimes be counter-intuitive for teachers.

The advice to ‘catch them getting it right’ is hardly a novel idea. But I would argue that, like the smiley face and the sad face, it is not often put into practice with enough consistency and therefore with enough impact. In fact, I think in practice it often deteriorates into an exercise of stabbing […]

Written by strictlypositiveblogOctober 17, 2018February 27, 2019

10 ways to build positive relationships with students.

  If you have to share a classroom with 30 young people, it’s an awful lot easier to get things done if there is an understanding between you, a tacit contract that you will treat one another with respect, that the students will let the teacher teach, and the teacher will help the students learn. […]

Written by strictlypositiveblogJuly 27, 2018

10 ways of developing strong classroom relationships

On EduTwitter I read a lot of discussion about how teachers shouldn’t need to be liked by students; they should simply be able to expect obedience and compliance from their classes, and schools should have ways of dealing with the students if they don’t comply as expected. And I agree. There must be an expectation […]

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. […]

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 […]

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