In his distinctive accessible and entertaining style, he offers practical suggestions to support teachers as they face the pressures of accountability, assessment and rising concerns about student behaviour.

Topics covered include:

• positive discipline and the importance of consistency;

• particular skills in the language of discipline - verbal and non-verbal;

• techniques for managing ... Read morebullying, aggression, rudeness and violence;

• methods to use with behaviourally disordered students;

• the 4Rs - rights, rules, responsibilities and routines;

• behavioural consequences including ′time-out′;

• behaviour agreements - ′contracts′;

• playground management;

• how to set up a behaviour management plan and express it in a policy.

Bill Rogers inspires confidence in a school′s capacity to work as a cohesive, co-operative unit, linked with parents and the community, to manage behaviour successfully.