"Tackling Behaviour in the Primary School is an immediately accessible handbook that provides ready-made advice and support for classroom professionals. This highly practical resource can be used, read and adapted by a wide range of staff and concentrates upon everyday practical life in primary schools. The content of the book is both substantial and broad, and can be dipped into to meet the demands of a particular situation as well as providing a thoroughly informative read from cover-to-cover. As experts in the field of behaviour management, the authors draw on their many years of experience to provide evidenced whole-school strategies, extensively-researched concepts and step-by-step behaviour programmes. Topics covered include: Understanding behaviour How to measure behaviour and why this can be an effective approach Using and implementing whole-school behaviour policies Honing your classroom management skills Managing bullying Dealing with specific classroom difficulties Working effectively and supportively with parents. Drawing on case-studies throughout, this handbook will help school staff understand and deal with the most confrontational of classroom behaviour. Tackling Behaviour in the Primary School provides teachers, student teachers, teaching assistants and behaviour specialists with a ready-made resource that is packed full of strategies, ideas, activities and solutions to help you manage behaviour in even the toughest of classrooms"--