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Student Behaviour
"One of the most essential characteristics of a good teacher is the ability to manage our students' behaviour, so that we can help them to learn, and this is especially so if you work in a school where there are many behaviour problems. We can only spark that crucial desire to learn if we can fisrt get our children to concentrate, to have self-discpline, to behave themselves! Every student in every school deserves the best education that we can possibly offer them, and we must find a way to achieve this."
'Getting The Buggers To Behave 2', Sue Cowley (2003)
Student Behaviour
"...pay maximum attention to appropriate behaviour and minimum attention to inappropriate behaviour."
'Managing Challenging Children', Gerard Gordon (1996)
Classroom Environment
"Before you can even think about teaching your children you will have to put a lot of time and effort into creating the right emotional conditions in which they can learn. Creating the right emotional environment begins with you and the atmosphere you create both around you and in your classroom.
Children learn much better when they are happy. Creating a classroom environment in which children feel a real sense of belonging and self-worth will help raise their self-esteem and increase their motivation."
'Primary Teacher's Pocketbook', Bruce Potts (2004)
Curriculum
"Differentiated instruction is a way of teaching that compels a teacher to proactively respond to a range of diverse learner characteristics. Differentiated instruction embodies a belief system as well as a skillful repertoire of teaching practices. At the core of differentiated instruction is the recognition that every learner has a unique way in which he or she learns best. A teacher who strives to achieve art and the practice of differentiated instructions embraces the belief that every student comes to school with varying interests, learning styles, experiences, strengths and needs."
'Teaching to Diversity in an Age of Standards', R. Kronberg, D. Walker, J. Zimmerman (2002)
