Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed and stressed in your classroom? Do you dream of creating a calm and focused learning environment for your children?
Traditional approaches seek to stop disruptive and difficult behaviors without first addressing children’s most basic and pressing needs: a felt sense of safety and connection.
It is important to recognise that there is no one solution or fixed approach to managing children behaviour.
A simple maxim is:
‘When what you are doing isn’t working, stop doing it and do something else’.
Effective teachers assess the nature and context of the behaviour they are observing, decide what it is they would wish to change and consider what would be the most appropriate ‘tool’, i.e. skill or strategy, to use to try to achieve the desired outcome. Any approach you apply to the situation will likely be more successful if you believe they will work and communicate that positive belief to the children.
