Behaviour Management Tips

First Go To Where They Are
4:28pm Thursday, 5th August 2010

Some students resist what we ask them to do; as do some adults for that matter!  It’s a natural reaction for some people – especially those who have an Internal pattern of motivation [see June and July’s bites].  A neat way to reduce the resistance to any suggestion we make to people is to go [...]

External Motivation
4:08pm Saturday, 10th July 2010

This month’s behaviour management strategy

External motivation

Last month I wrote about the Internal pattern of motivational language that can be very powerful in getting students to engage with what them to.  The other side of the coin is the External pattern.  The Internal/External language pattern is part of what is called Language and Behaviour profiling.  In [...]

Internal Motivation
12:34pm Thursday, 17th June 2010

Have you ever had the experience of working with a student and finding it difficult to make a connection.  I know that I have and it can be very frustrating.  Despite all of our best intentions and bringing all our sensitivity to bear there seems to be resistance to anything that we suggest.  It may [...]

“Don’t Interrupt Me Dear.” – Part Two
9:45am Sunday, 16th May 2010

In Part Two of “Don’t interrupt me dear” I continue the theme explored last month.
One kind of interruption that is particularly common is the one where someone finishes another person’s sentence for them.  Nancy Kline [writer of the amazing book “Time To Think”] is not at all complimentary about that.  In finishing someone’s sentence, she [...]

Learn to love the silences
11:05am Monday, 22nd February 2010

This Month’s Behaviour Management Strategy – February 2010
When I sat down to consider what to write for this tip I became aware of all the different sounds there were around, despite it being very early in the morning.  The hum from the lights, the bleep bleep of the bin lorry reversing outside, the clicking of [...]

Matching Tone and Vocalisation
8:50pm Friday, 15th January 2010

This Month’s Behaviour Management Strategy – Jan 2010
This is the third of the building rapport series of Bites.  In the last two months I have talked about hot buttons and matching breathing.  This month is about how we can make a profound connection with a student who has little, if any, spoken language.  Such students [...]

Matching a Student’s Breathing
9:22pm Monday, 7th December 2009

This Month’s Behaviour Management Strategy Dec 09
This is the second of three really powerful ways of building rapport with students.  Last month I talked about hot buttons and how repeating back exactly what people say can build rapport very quickly. 
This month’s strategy is about how matching a student’s breathing can have massive impact, for example [...]