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Behaviour

Manage Your First Classroom

Know what to do when a pupil talks back, plays the class clown or won't settle, and set up a room where it happens less.

  • 28 minutes
  • 6 modules
  • 0.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Tell whether a pupil is bored, stuck, struggling with a need or just messing about
  • Respond to each of the five Ds of misbehaviour with a calm, clear plan
  • Defuse a confrontation by taking the audience out of it
  • Combine rewards, sanctions and follow-up so incidents are less likely to recur
  • Create a room where pupils take on hard work and aren't afraid of mistakes

About this course

Behaviour is the thing most new teachers lose sleep over, and it helps to know it isn't a verdict on your teaching. Pupils usually misbehave because they're bored, stuck, have a need that isn't being met, or are just being naughty, and each calls for a different response.

For the five most common kinds, the five Ds (defiance, disruption, disturbing behaviour, discourtesy and distraction), you'll have practical steps ready. Take the audience away from a confrontation. Give a defiant pupil the chance to do something well. And see how rewards, sanctions and a follow-up conversation work together, so you're preventing the next incident rather than only reacting to this one.

Underneath sits a classroom where pupils are stretched by hard work and feel safe to get things wrong.

  • For early career teachers. Post-16, primary, secondary and special.

6 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    3 min

  2. Wrap Up

    2 min

  3. Creating the learning environment

    3 min

  4. Classroom management strategies for NQTs

    7 min

  5. Dealing with common misbehaviours

    11 min

  6. Rewards and sanctions

    5 min