Dealing with Disruptive Students in the Classroom

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Designed for individual teachers and school teams alike, this text demonstrates how to approach and manage disruptive students and behaviour. At the book’s core is a series of detailed strategies for dealing with commonly occurring problems. Some of the chapters in the book focus on:

• The Nature and Causes of Disruption
• Responding to Disruption
• Basic Principles
• Understanding and Dealing with Gambits
• Sharing Good Practice

The ideas and theories are presented in the context of a research base and come complete with case studies.

Age: 4-16

Chapters

• Dealing with change effectively
• Teaching, learning and disruptive behaviour
• The power-caring balance: sources of biological power
• Establishing a regime for positive behaviour in the classroom
• Creating a culture for positive behaviour: the importance of values, atmosphere and attitude
• The importance of SALAD
• Systems: the power of linking stakeholders together
• Enabling students to behave well: access, limits, acceptance and direction
• Gambits: understanding and dealing with the games students play
• Working with parents: systems theory
• Working with parents: a case study
• School refusal
• Evaluating progress
• Systems approaches in action: cross-sector educational liaison programmes