Sharpening the Behaviour Management Pencil

Now I know why their teacher calls this group ‘The Tornadoes’. Twenty minutes with them and you feel like you’ve been in one. It’s not the overt behaviour ; it’s all the secondary stuff … ‘Sarah’s looking at me’… ‘No I’m not’… ‘Yes you are’ … which knocks your preconceived notions about 20 minutes of intensive comprehension instruction off-balance. So today is session number three and it’s time to address the issue … sort out a couple of behaviours that are going to be acceptable, with the obvious inference about those that are not, and then reinforcing them like crazy. ‘Minding your own business’ and ‘keeping your eyes on the story’ were enough for a start and we managed to quench the storm by zeroing in on the ones doing the right thing and ignoring the off task fringes. And … we did some reading. by Hilton

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About Hilton Ayrey and Brian Parker

Hilton AYREY - Hilton taught in primary schools for 18 years before taking up a position as tutor with the New Zealand Graduate School of Education. Over the last ten years he has developed his innovative literacy programmes for preservice and inservice teacher training. He has also written a large number of literacy resources to support guided reading programmes including collections of stories, non fiction text, and assessment procedures. He now works full-time as an author / reading advisor for Handy Resources. Brian PARKER – Has spent 10 years as an ESOL teacher / trainer, 7 years as a primary teacher and 2 years as a trainer at NZGSE. He now works full time for Handy Resources developing online teaching resources.

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