Effective Supply Teaching: Behaviour Management, Classroom Discipline And Colleague Support

Effective Supply Teaching Behaviour Management, Classroom Discipline and Colleague Support Bill Rogers eBook covers_pj orange.indd 74 21/4/08 15:10:11 prelims effec 7/1/03 3:55 am Page i Effective Supply Teaching prelims effec 7/1/03 3:55 am Page ii prelims effec 7/1/03 3:55 am Page iii Effective Supply Teaching Behaviour Management, Classroom Discipline and Colleague Support Bill Rogers prelims effec 7/1/03 3:55 am Page iv © William A. Rogers 2003 First published 2003 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form, or by any means, only with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. Paul Chapman Publishing A SAGE Publications Company 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd B-42, Panchsheel Enclave Post Box 4109 New Delhi 100 017 Library of Congress Control Number 2002 113049 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7619 4227 0 ISBN 0 7619 4228 9 (pbk) Typeset by Anneset, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset Printed and bound in Great Britain by Athenaum Press, Gateshead prelims effec 7/1/03 3:55 am Page v Acknowledgements To all my colleagues who teach as supply teachers, who have allowed me to work with them in their classrooms and in workshops over the years. My thanks to all the team at Paul Chapman Publishing who have supported this project from the outset. My special thanks to the editorial team, particularly Marianne Lagrange, Saleha Nessa and Jeanette Graham. Bill Rogers August 2002 prelims effec 7/1/03 3:55 am Page vi prelims effec 7/1/03 3:55 am Page vii 1 Contents Acknowledgements 1 2 v Introduction: the natural challenges of supply teaching A typical day? Being the professional 1 3 4 A normal teaching day? A case example of supply teaching 7 3 Assertion, confidence and teacher leadership Confidence and authority Our authority Developing assertive skills Basic skills of assertion Assertion in discipline Accents, dialect and language Dress and culture 26 28 28 30 32 35 36 37 4 A daily discipline plan: key discipline and management skills Least to most intrusive discipline Language skills Tactical ignoring Giving directions in discipline situations Incidental direction 39 40 41 41 43 43 prelims effec 7/1/03 viii 5 3:55 am Page viii Effective Supply Teaching Directions with infants Rule reminders Questions in a discipline situation Direct imperative questions Blocking, partial agreement and redirecting Commands Humour Discipline language/discipline plan Key questions to be addressed in one’s overall management plan Supporting our classroom discipline Survival strategies 44 45 46 49 50 51 52 53 Core routines: what you establish you establish Corridor settling Settling the class: initiating and engaging whole-c