Better Behaviour: A Guide for Teachers, May/2018

How can better behaviour make you a better teacher?

TES behaviour columnist and Executive Headteacher Jarlath O’Brien combines insights from psychological research and hard-won personal experiences into a practical and uplifting guide for teachers new and experienced. Avoiding gimmicks or magic bullets, Jarlath shows you how a perceptive approach built on empathy and understanding the children you teach can lead to a happy and healthy learning environment that allows you to become a more effective teacher.

Looking at how your behaviour influences their behaviour, this book will challenge your thinking, increase your confidence, reduce your frustrations and empower you to improve the behaviour of the children you work with.

About the Author:

Jarlath has been a teacher for two decades. He has worked in comprehensive, independent, selective and special schools, including in schools for children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties and is also a Trustee in a local multi-academy trust of mainstream primary and secondary schools. For the last nine years Jarlath has been a Headteacher and Executive Headteacher. Early on in his teaching life Jarlath was also a volunteer Special Constable with Thames Valley Police.

Jarlath is a behaviour columnist for the Times Educational Supplement, has written for The Guardian and for several other education publications and trains teachers on behaviour, school leadership and special educational needs.

Also by Jarlath O’Brien:

‘Better Behaviour – a guide for teachers’ published by SAGE

‘Don’t Send Him in Tomorrow’