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Getting the Buggers to Behave | 
 enlarge | Author: Sue Cowley
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Category: Book
List Price: £14.99
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1220
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3Rev Ed
Pages: 258
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0826489125
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.1024
EAN: 9780826489128
ASIN: 0826489125
Publication Date: March 31, 2006
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 essential! March 15, 2002
81 out of 83 found this review helpful
This book is fantastic! I really can't recommend it enough... Very easy to read with lots of practical examples to ground the theory. Sue genuinely understands the issues behind bad behaviour and seeks to address those. Some of her suggestions will be things you do anyway, but it is worth reading the book to really consolidate it in your head! Another thing I found refreshing was that she is not naive with pupils (eg you say come here to a pupil and they always do!) but she does explain how a certain attitude and consistency will always work ultimately (even if the child does not 'come here'.) Highly Highly Highly recommended... Thanks Sue :)
Oozing with good advice May 5, 2007
BG (UK)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
OK, so I admit I started reading this with a giant pinch of salt at the ready. It was unnecessary. I've been teaching for almost thirty years now, I've seen many ( too many ) changes in that time and if I had to give a book to a trainee teacher then this would be the one.
Children are not the enemy - they are children - even the 18 year olds - and this book offers much sound advice to keep you sane and happy through your teaching career.
This is an excellent guide to one of the best professions in the world.
A brilliant start or intervention to classroom management. August 27, 2006
Mr. D. Bowman
39 out of 41 found this review helpful
We've all heard it before. If kids missbehave in your lesson you must "Inspire" them, or plan the lesson better, or be more "enthaustic" or blah, blah, blah. I generally cut out at this point because, like most teachers, I'm doing all of the above and I know even the best planned and most exciting lesson can go wrong.
I picked up this book half way through my PGCE and all the advice it gave clicked into place and rapidly improved my classroom management and immediently helped my teaching.
What makes it so effective is that Sue is mearly human herself, who has learnt how to be a good teacher over the years. The book shows a great understanding of what it's like to be a teacher and how difficult it can be managing certain classes or just making a good lesson go even better.
This book it demonstrates how to get pupils to do as you say, how to get them to want to behave and how to manage it all when things do go wrong without stressing yourself out to much. All the factors that make slesson more positive.
Cowley manages to to do all this in a practical fashion with numerous examples of different real life situations.
It's written in such a easy to follow fashion that it ends up being more helpful than anyother educational book (excluding Bill Rogers) or LEA confrence you'll ever read or attend.
You may not want to do things 100% as Sue Cowley susgests, but there is ample material with lots of different ideas that do work so you can remix them into your own personnal style.
An excellent tool for any teacher who wants sensible advice on improving their classroom management. Advice that actually helps.
I should add that the only negative review on this book is by somebody who hasn't actually tried out the techniques given out. They just complain about it repeating itself in different ways. They have unfortuantly missed the point that being able to repeat things in different ways or use different techniques of saying the same thing in different situations is one of the most important skills a good teacher requires.
Fantastic January 23, 2002
24 out of 25 found this review helpful
I am a student teacher and have found this book really interesting. It gave me ideas as to how to start off when I get my own class and also made me think of a few things that had never entered my mind before. Well worth the money.
A Breath of Fresh Air January 19, 2002
S. Smith (Lancashire, UK)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
Sue Cowley presents a behaviour management book for experienced teachers and NQTs alike. Working in a tough inner city school, I thought positive behaviour management would never work, but I was proved wrong! Cowley's engaging and 'jargon free' style makes this an interesting read, and the tips, simple as they seem at first glance,have certainly sorted out 'those unmanageable year 9's on Friday period 5'!! A must have for anybody with a class they dread...
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