Behaviour Management In School - Summary Of Joy Ganters Presentation To Education Students

Joy Ganter is the current Principal of Glenmore State High School. She has also worked at Mt Morgan High School, The Hall State School and a number of other public schools in the district. Ms Ganter presented a discussion on Behaviour Management in School to the GDLT Students on Monday 14 March, 2010.

I thought it would be helpful to share with the students who could not attend this lecture -a brief summary of what was discussed. Hopefully I have recorded most of the important bits. This lecture was very interesting and I thoroughly recommend that if you get the opportunity to hear this lady speak again you take the opportunity to do so.

With regard to Behavior Management she made the recommendation that a teacher should:

• Be Calm and collective
• Know what you what your classroom to be like
• Be consistent but be flexible
• Have your own Philosophy about Behavior Management
• Look at behavior management as a life long learning process
• Display and make known your behavior expectations
• Read about behavior management from the experts - she recommended Ken Rigby, Bill Rodgers, John Joseph and Lee Cantor.
• Give quality feedback on behavior
• Developing a relationship with your students is important in learning
• You must take care of your students learning needs.
• Divide and conquer in a discipline situation.
• It is the certainty not the severity of the punishment or consequence.
• Make sure your punishment is redeemable. (That a student can reverse the consequences of their actions)
• Your profile is power. (If students respect and believe in you they will respect your expectations)
• Have engaging lessons and behavior won't be a problem.
• Enable the student to be able to save face.
• Use techniques for discipline that don't interrupt your lessons (Such as simplicity writing the offending students name on the board in the detention box)
• Use involving parents as a very last resort.
• Try to manage the discipline yourself with involving others unless the matter is serious and it is school policy.
• Could use positive encouragement contracts or deals with students.
• Support from colleagues is important - how are they doing things is there a better way.
• Positive letter or phone call home to parents is appreciated by some students.
• Take advantage of peer group pressure in regard to good behavior.
• Suspensions don't work in most cases and they are not a positive experience for anyone.
• Find out what is meaningful to the offending student and reward their good behavior with it.
• Know your schools behavior policy backwards.
  

Hopefully I have covered most of what was discussed, if you have any questions. Leave a comment and I will try to answer them for you.