Behaviour Management

This course focuses on how teachers can facilitate students’ self-regulation of their own behaviour.

Throughout the course, you will find a range of resources, strategies, and further readings to enable you to adapt your approach to behaviour management to meet your students’ needs.

Lesson One: Introduction

This introductory lesson provides an overview of behaviour management, including what behaviour management is, why we manage students’ behaviour and how we can evaluate the effectiveness of our behaviour management techniques.

Lesson Two: Common Approaches to Behaviour Management

This lesson looks at some of the most often used approaches to managing student behaviour including rewards, consequences, building positive relationships, and building students’ capacity to manage their own behaviour.

 Lesson Three: Problematic Behaviours

Lesson Three examines the different types of problematic behaviours teachers see in class, including their likely causes and consequences.

Lesson Four: Evidence-Based Approaches

In this Lesson, we explore what the available literature on student learning tells us about what works and what doesn’t work in the classroom.

Lesson Five: Creating a Learning Focused Environment

Lesson Five suggests practical approaches to implementing teaching strategies and classroom practices that support on-task behaviours while reducing distracted and distracting behaviours.

Lesson Six: Maintaining a Learning Focused Environment

This lesson offers a deeper exploration of the strategies suggested in Lesson Five, with a focus on how these strategies can be integrated into your daily classroom practice and how you might alter teaching strategies to suit your students’ needs.

Lesson Seven: Resources

This lesson consists of video, articles, weblinks and suggested further reading which teachers can use to further their own understanding of behaviour management.