Behaviour Management Teacher Training

What is meant by the term behaviour management? It suggests control, holds limitations and it creates a picture of serenity. The major issue within many FE classrooms is poor or anti-sociable behaviour. Every teacher wants to have the smiley, well behaved and engaged learner and while that sometimes occurs it can be an upward battle to achieve. Wallace (2007) suggested a lack of motivation is not always the teachers fault but it is the teacher’s responsibility. This strongly links with the ethos surrounding behaviour management. This rationale will analyse ways of encouraging behaviour that contributes to a purposeful learning environment. It will explore how teachers manage behaviour that disrupts.
We often change our behaviours to mirror other people’s attitudes and values. This trend can have a positive influence on a wider and smaller scale. The classroom is a representation of this. If there is a lack of clear guidelines and accepted behaviours; how can you expect a productive classroom environment to exist? If the teacher is confident and approachable from the start with the use of negotiated ground rules that involve the learners and a strong induction package students should have a clearer vision of what is expected of them, and mirrors this within their own behaviours. This is heavily supported by the Social Learning theory. Learners must be aware of consequences set out not only by College Policy but within that learning environment. Positive reinforcement should be a continuous strategy to improve and reward learners for good behaviour. Within the positive reinforcement strategy the learner should feel that the teacher has faith in the learner and that they can achieve and develop. The self-fulfilling prophecy (1948) insists if you start believing that you can achieve you will as it is pre-disposed action that others have faith in you and it’s in our human nature to not want to fail or let people down. Obviously, we speak in classroom terms and is...