This short guide provides a more down-to-earth or common sense approach to the managing behaviour issues in the classroom.

Again, look through the 9 tips and then discuss how ready you feel you are to undertake the upcoming PEX time. Use the SWOP (Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats) template (more details) to help in your discussion.

While limit setting is a foundation skill in most classroom management strategies it is hard to clearly define. Part of the difficulty is that it can take many forms and is more easily defined by what it isn't (threats, intimidation, ultimatums) than what it is.

Basically, a good limit when framed well results in a dilemma for the student in which they have to make a choice for which they feel ownership and responsibility. Hopefully the prezi below works through some of the steps to achieving this . . .