Troublesome Behaviour in the Classroom

Mick McManus has been a teacher for twenty years and is now head of secondary education at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is a regular contributor to school-based staff-training days.

• Preface 1 Concerns, causes and remedies 2 Exclusion from school 3 Teacher qualities and classroom management skills 4 Pupil perspectives, motives and strategies 5 Controlling stress and confrontations 6 Individuals in context 7 Putting learning into practice

'Using easy to read and understand plain simple language this author combines practical advice and real life case studies with humour to look at various causes and solutions to some of the problem behaviours which appear in classroom settings.' - Caroline Hensby, Adders Organisation