Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Understanding and Developing Positive Behaviour in Schools

By (author) Patrick Garton Edited by Emma Hollis

Publication date:

16 November 2020

Publisher

Critical Publishing

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781913453091

Behaviour is the number one concern for most early career teachers so this accessible book provides a range of research informed and road-tested strategies to support the development of positive classroom systems and structures.

It offers key psychological insights into the factors that lie behind different behaviours, helping you understand and manage your own behaviours as well as those of the children and young people you teach. Chapters cover understanding individuals, the classroom environment and the wider school context, as well as working with parents and carers. Ultimately the book enables you to successfully work with groups of children and young people so that they can learn effectively and make progress.

The Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers series provides accessible, carefully researched, quick reads for early career teachers, covering the key topics you will encounter during your training year and first two years of teaching.  They complement and are fully in line with the new Early Career Framework and are intended to assist ongoing professional development by bringing together current information and thinking on each area in one convenient place.

The book is an excellent resource both for early career teachers and those who support them. As the author says, behaviour is so often the area that new teachers worry about the most and sadly can be a reason why some leave the profession.

This book is an excellent combination of really practical, actionable advice and the broader theoretical frameworks and perspectives that underpin why it is likely to work. The focus on helping teachers to understand their own behaviour and triggers and responses to situations is particularly welcome as this so often unlocks the best,  most productive way forward in both the short and longer term