Teachers Integrate Best Practices for Behaviour Management

Principal Scott and Instruction Coach Val have been working with teachers on the importance of managing behaviour to improve the learning environment. Specifically, they have recently presented ‘Teaching Effectively to Manage Behaviour’ training for all teachers at the school. These are 11 behaviour-management related teaching skills that teachers need to deliver effective teaching to all students. Principal Scott would like all teachers to implement these strategies in their lessons.

The next day, teacher Kim uses the steps that were modelled at the meeting. To begin, she gets the students attention and explains the rules and the group goals for today’s Math lesson. During the lesson, Kim reinforces students who are ready to work, and who practice expected behaviours before starting instruction. She then presents a fractions lesson fluently and in an engaging manner, however Johnny starts fidgeting and looking out the window.  

Instead of ignoring the minor behaviour, Teacher Kim tells Johnny to listen and continues to focus on Johnny even if his behaviour is not interfering with the lesson. At the end of the lesson, Kim reflects on her teaching techniques and reviews the strategies that were presented at the meeting.

She realises that she did not ignore Johnny’s behaviour even if it did not interfere with the lesson, which is a strategy that is suggested as part of the 11 behaviour management teaching skills.