We begin the day with 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.

We then look 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.

A brief look at the different types of problematic behaviours teachers see in class, including their likely causes and consequences informs our last session before lunch which looks at what the literature on student learning tells us about what works and what doesn’t work in the classroom.

After lunch, we suggest and discuss practical approaches to implementing teaching strategies and classroom practices that support on-task behaviours while reducing distracted and distracting behaviours.

We 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.