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Teachers Are Mad (Insane, Not In A Rage)!!

10.22.2009 · Posted in Reference and Education Articles

So you’re a teacher and insane, eh? Insulting or what? …. Well yes, actually you are….. mad as mad can be – insane, deranged. So what am I talking about?nnOk, I’ll tell you. I talk to countless people in schools who are having trouble managing children’s behaviour. They tell me all about it. What a child’s done, how bad behaviour is increasing, that classes x, y and z are behaving badly, etc, etc. They are full of indignation that the children’s behaviour doesn’t improve, they can’t contact the parents, that there’s something wrong with the child, the child’s home life is hopeless, the parents are hopeless – it’s endless.nnI talk to numerous parents too but obviously they think differently – for them the school is awful, the teacher’s awful, their child isn’t understood or can’t help it – equally endless but understandably more in defence of little Alfie ….nnSo many unhappy disgruntled and stressed people all blaming everybody else for behaviour problems!!nnSo this is my evidence for teachers being mad??? Well, yes and let me tell you why… When I ask people what they’ve done about altering the children’s behaviour they tell me a whole host of techniques they’ve been using for years – but that the techniques don’t work because the problem is with the child, the parents or the homelife, etc. ‘So why use them if they don’t work?’ I ask. Is it going to work any differently by doing more of the same? No, it isn’t… same input, same result.nnSo that makes teachers mad? Yes it does. Heard what the definition of madness is?? Doing the same thing again and again expecting things to turn out differently. It just isn’t going to happen. But seriously, how about if you’re repeating these techniques endlessly because you don’t know there’s an alternative – you have’t been told there’s a different approach, there’s been no behaviour management training and you simply don’t know what to do?nnThats not insane, that’s upsetting and it causes stress, poor health plus low classroom results and a host of other problems. But, you can do something about it – and really easily. Anyone can learn to manage children’s behaviour confidently – it isn’t difficult. I use my own advice, detailed in Behaviour Bible, each day with the most potentially challenging and confrontational children who have demonstrated the most disruptive behaviour in school. Anyone can learn to manage children’s behaviour and make your working life far less stressful.

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