The main ideas of the book:
- Despite its near absence from many teacher training programs, behavior management is a skill that can (and must) be taught. With proper training and practice, any teacher can get better at managing behavior.
- Teachers must embrace their role as the authority who is running the room through effective planning, teaching, and maintenance of behavior standards.
Why I chose this book:
Classroom management is a skillset in which many teachers have received little training, yet it is essential to get right if any teaching or learning is to take place. Managing behavior has always been one of the greatest challenges for teachers, and today, the challenge is even greater than in years past. As students returned to their classrooms after a year away in virtual learning, many teachers discovered that once-familiar behavior standards had been forgotten.
Enter Tom Bennett, UK Department for Education’s Behaviour Advisor, to the rescue! A former night club manager and a once-floundering newbie teacher who went on to be nominated for the GEMS Global Teacher Prize, Bennett brings light-hearted humor and serious help to teachers struggling with bad student behavior. I believe that any classroom teacher, new or experienced, will find useful frameworks, processes, and ready-to-implement behavior solutions in the pages of Bennett’s book.
