Tackling Behaviour in the Primary School provides ready‎-made advice and support for classroom professionals and can be used‎,‎ read and adapted to suit the busy everyday lives of teachers working in primary schools today‎.‎ This valuable text sets the scene for managing behaviour in the primary classroom in the context of the Children Act 2004 agenda‎,‎ making it highly relevant to trainee primary teachers‎,‎ learning school mentors‎,‎ classroom assistants‎,‎ behaviour specialists and senior management teams‎.‎ 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 you to understand and deal with the most confrontational of classroom behaviour‎.‎Tackling Behaviour in the Primary School provides all staff‎,‎ parents and carers engaged in health‎,‎ education and social services with a ready‎-made resource packed full of strategies‎,‎ ideas‎,‎ activities and solutions to help manage behaviour in even the toughest of classrooms‎.‎