The Essential Guide to Taking Care of Behaviour for Learning Support Assistants: Practical Skills for Learning Support and Teaching Assistant's (The Essential Guides)

This practical guide covers current guidelines and revised HLTA policies and is designed to help teaching assistants and other support staff deal with behaviour in the classroom. The author focuses on the reader's own conduct as a starting point for behaviour management; this text will account for the various circumstances in which a Teaching Assistant may have to manage behaviour, and will also provide advice on working with the class teacher. The book is full of key ideas and useful activities and exercises and can help develop exisiting skills as well as build confidence. The author refrains from using negative terminology and a 'them and us' approach, and consequently has been praised for presenting practical advice whilst adopting a positive approach. The book appeals equally to both primary and secondary school staff, and also contains a great deal of information which is relevant to other non-teaching staff. Contents......Page 5 About the author......Page 7 Preface......Page 8 Introduction......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Part 1 Managing Behaviour in the Classroom......Page 14 Things to Think About Before You Start......Page 16 Managing Your Own Behaviour: Emotionally Secure Relationships......Page 20 Consistency and Certainty......Page 28 Learning Rituals, Habits and Routines......Page 42 Language......Page 52 Intelligent Use of Praise and Reward......Page 64 When Students Break the Rules: Applying Sanctions......Page 72 Part 2 Advanced Behaviour Management Strategies......Page 84 Managing Confrontation and Stopping it from Escalating......Page 86 Proactively Developing Relationships with ‘Hard to Reach’ Students......Page 94 Building Mutual Trust......Page 104 Part 3 Collaborating with Other Adults......Page 112 Seeking Support: Why, When and How......Page 114 Teaching Partnerships: Collaborative Approaches with the Class Teacher......Page 122 Involving Parents......Page 132 Part 4 Specific Situations......Page 140 Managing Extreme Behaviour......Page 142 Withdrawing a Small Group......Page 162 Managing Behaviour Around the Site......Page 170 Working in Schools in Special Measures and Extreme Circumstances......Page 178 Afterword......Page 186 Bibliography......Page 187 Index......Page 188 Licensing Agreement......Page 193 Managing behaviour in the classroom Things to think about before you start Managing your own behaviour: emotionally secure relationships Consistency and certainty Learning rituals, habits and routines Language Intelligent use of praise and reward Sanctions: when students break the rules Advanced behaviour management strategies Managing confrontation and stopping it from escalating Proactively developing relationships with 'hard to reach' students Building mutual trust Collaborating with other adults Seeking support: why, when and how Teaching partnerships: collaborative approaches with the class teacher Involving parents Specific situations Managing extreme behaviour Withdrawing a small group Managing behaviour around the site Working in schools in special measures and extreme circumstances. "This revised edition of Taking Care of Behaviour is tailored specifically to the needs of learning support assistants in primary and secondary schools and college settings. Containing new material and exercises, as well as a revised CD-ROM with downloadable templates."--back cover