This text aims to help teachers reduce conflict by developing positive relationships with pupils, creating a calm environment and using non-confrontational communication skills. Curriculum ideas are included and there are techniques to enable teachers to minimise stress, conserve energy and remain calm. The book is intended to help teachers be authoritative rather than authoritarian.

This text aims to help primary teachers improve behaviour, preserve motivation and foster cooperation by developing positive relationships with pupils and their parents, creating a calm environment for learning and using non-confrontational communication skills. It outlines an empathetic approach to understanding and managing disruptive behaviour that avoids conflict and demoralization.

Classroom management is key to a successful teaching career. This book has survival advice for NQTs as well as ideas to develop the skills of more experienced teachers. It should: appeal directly to the reader with engaging examples from real classrooms; help readers to cope with every aspect of school life, including the staff room and teacher/parent meetings; and enable readers to pre-empt general classroom management problems.

The original edition of this book made accessible to primary school teachers and student teachers the means of putting many of the Elton Report's findings into practice. The author's philosophy on behavior management still stands, but the ideas have been revised and updated to take account of more recent thought about good practice in primary education and the management of schools today.

The book suggests tried and tested strategies for forestalling behavior problems through thoughtful class management and lesson planning; responding positively to behavior incidents;...