Amba Press
Classroom Dynamics: Practical Strategies Dealing with Off-Task Behaviour
$31.95 inc GST $29.05 ex GST
When dealing with off-task student behavior, you need effective strategies. In Classroom Dynamics, Glen Pearsall offers tools for creating positive learning environments and maintaining engagement. This book is perfect for K–12 teachers, providing actionable strategies for addressing low-level disruptions and de-escalating conflicts. The revised edition includes a new chapter on demand-avoidant behaviors, guiding educators on handling sensitive situations.
Product overview
When you’re dealing with off-task student behaviour, you want teacher-tested strategies that work in real classrooms. You’ll find a wealth of these tools in Classroom Dynamics by Glen Pearsall. Drawing from his extensive experience helping schools address challenging student behaviours, Pearsall explores how to create positive learning environments and heighten engagement. He also focuses on maintaining productive relationships with young people.
This book is ideal for K–12 teachers looking for concrete strategies that they can immediately implement in their classrooms. Incorporating recent research on effective classroom practice, Pearsall discusses how to quickly address low-level off-task behaviour. He provides ways to manage this behaviour before it becomes problematic. However when it does, he explains how to de-escalate potential conflicts and address difficult behaviours. Classroom Dynamics also helps teachers understand the reasons behind these disruptive behaviours, offering practical ways to quickly get to the heart of issues that might be affecting student learning.
This revised edition includes a new chapter focusing on demand-avoidant behaviours where Pearsall guides educators in the subtleties of dealing sensitively with situations in which even low-level instruction might lead to an explosive response from the student. This insightful chapter provides additional tools for managing the most challenging behaviours.
Author Biography
Glen Pearsall was a teacher at Eltham High School and a board member of the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority. Pearsall works throughout Australia as an educational consultant, specializing in feedback and assessment, workload reduction for teachers, and instructional practice. He has a particular interest in the work of graduate and preservice teachers and has worked as a research fellow and tutorial leader at the Centre for Youth Research, University of Melbourne. Pearsall is a Cambridge Education associate and a master class presenter for TTA. Alongside this, he has a long association with the Teacher Learning Network and a wide range of teacher unions. He is the best-selling author of several widely used teacher books.
