Behaviour Management
Essential Skills for
Classroom Management
1. Students need
to know what you
expect of them
2. Give clear,
short
instructions
that help students
know what to do to
stay actively
engaged
3. Wait and
look at your
students for
5-10
seconds
after you
give an
instruction
4. Acknowledge
those who are
doing what’s
required
5. Use your body
language to
encourage
compliance
6. Describe what
they’re doing well
to encourage them in
those behaviours that you
know will facilitate
learning
7. Selective
attending Effectively
ignore safe, off-task
behaviours, for a limited
time
8. Respectfully
redirect the offtask student to
the learning
9.Give students
a choice to
make it clear
they own
responsibility
for their
behaviour
10. Keep your
word
and follow through
1. Students need to know what you expect of them
2. Give clear, short instructions
3. Briefly wait after you give an instruction
4. Acknowledge those who are doing what’s required
5. Use your body language to encourage compliance
6. Describe what they’re doing well
7. Attend selectively
8. Respectfully redirect the off-task student to the learning
9.Give students a choice to make it clear they own
responsibility for their behaviour
10. Keep your word