Running the Room: The Teacher's Guide to Behaviour

by Tom Bennett

Overview

Good behaviour is the beginning of great learning. All children deserve classrooms that are calm, safe spaces where everyone is treated with dignity. Creating that space is one of the most important things a teacher needs to be able to do. But all too often teachers begin their careers with the bare minimum of training – or worse, none. How students behave, socially and academically, dictates whether or not they will succeed or struggle in school. Every child comes to the classroom with different skills, habits, values and expectations of what to do. There’s no point just telling a child to behave; behaviour must be taught. Behaviour is a curriculum. This simple truth is the beginning of creating a classroom culture where everyone flourishes, pupils and staff.
Running the Room is the teacher’s guide to behaviour. Practical, evidence informed, and based on the expertise of great teachers from around the world, it addresses the things teachers really need to know to build the classrooms children need. Bursting with strategies, tips and solid advice, it brings together the best of what we know and saves teachers, new or old, from reinventing the wheels of the classroom. It’s the book teachers have been waiting for.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913808198
Publisher:	Hodder Education
Publication date:	09/28/2020
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	973,669
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tom Bennett is the founder of researchED, a grass-roots organisation that raises research literacy in education and campaigns for better evidence awareness worldwide.

In 2015 he became the UK government’s school ‘Behaviour Czar’, advising on behaviour policy, as well as chairing the Mental Health in Schools panel. He has written four books about teacher training, and in 2015 he was longlisted as one of the world’s top teachers in the GEMS Global Teacher Prize. In the same year he made The Huffington Post’s ‘Top Ten Global Bloggers’ list.

He is also the Director of Tom Bennett Training, which works exclusively with the most disadvantaged students and schools in England, helping them to turn around. His online resources have been viewed over 1,200,000 times, and he is a TeacherFellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

The principles of the classroom 15

Introduction: secret origins 17

Section 1 Human Nature 25

Chapter 1 The basics 27

Chapter 2 Good and bad models 43

Chapter 3 Running the room 53

Chapter 4 Motivation 65

Section 2 Creating the Culture 93

Part I Social Norms 95

Chapter 5 The culture of the classroom 97

Chapter 6 Establishing useful classroom norms 127

Part 2 Routines 159

Chapter 7 Routines 161

Chapter 8 Rules and routines 213

Chapter 9 Scripts 221

Part 3 Behaviour Feedback 233

Chapter 10 Behaviour feedback 235

Chapter 11 Sanctions 245

Chapter 12 Rewards 269

Chapter 13 Parents 281

Chapter 14 Interpersonal skills 291

Chapter 15 Dealing with crises 303

Chapter 16 Removing students 329

Final thoughts 341

Bibliography 343