Six ways to a calmer classroom - Career. Comment:4.5 average rating | Comments (15)Last Updated:8 November, 2010Section:Career Government adviser, Andy Vass, shares his top tips on how to achieve a tranquil teaching environment.
You might have a talent for conveying the know-how of algebraic equations, and your knowledge of the periodic table may be second to none, but if you can’t manage a class there’s no way children will learn. Andy Vass, trainer and former government behaviour management consultant, shares some invaluable ideas for success: Organise things to prevent misbehaviourGreat teachers deliberately do things to make it less likely that children will misbehave. Here are some key suggestions: Teaching that works. Teacher trainer Andy Vass shows how knowledge and application of the human givens approach could help hard-pressed teachers reduce stress and improve the climate in class.
WITHIN staffrooms around the country's schools, stress levels are high. At the same time as being understaffed and correspondingly overstretched, teachers are struggling to cope with an increasing workload brought about by a steady flow of new initiatives, rafts of additional targets, a (still) overly prescriptive curriculum which restricts professional autonomy and the incessant quest for higher and higher standards accompanied by endless testing. Andy Vass: Video Clips. Andy Vass Classroom Management Advisor Andy Vass has taught since 1981 and now combines working in schools with training and consultancy work.
He has worked with over 450 schools and LEAs in the UK on issues to do with positive relationships, effective classroom management, supporting troubled children and solution focused thinking.