Mistakes, blunders, slips, errors… all of these are NOT dirty words… ESPECIALLY in teaching. 

In fact, I celebrate mistakes, I encourage mistakes, I welcome the vulnerability of teachers standing there and just doing their thing in the classroom KNOWING that mistakes are a part of the learning process.

When it comes to classroom management in particular, there are some very common patterns in the mistakes that we can make that actually FUEL low-level behaviours with our students.

The good news? These are all really easy to identify, reflect on, and then FIX! This means that if a teacher is open and willing to own up to their blunders, massive amounts of growth can happen, and happen FAST!

In this episode, I go over some of these very common and very simple mistakes you could be making in the classroom, and give you some very real and practical advice on how to quickly and easily develop. 

For anybody who came to the show notes for those reflective questions - here they are!

• What are the structures and routines I have in place? Can I strengthen these?
• Do my students know what to expect when they walk in the room?
• Can I make this lesson more visual?
• Is this lesson pitched appropriately?
• Is there anything more ‘hands on’ I can do to get this content across?
• How could they reach this learning objective through exploration rather than my explicit teacher talk or instruction?
• Is this conceptually relevant to them and their lives in some way?
• How can you harness your non-verbal classroom management to mitigate SO MANY of these behaviors from occurring?

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Add both the masterclass AND my full comprehensive classroom management course ‘That’ll Teach ‘Em’ to your basket to bundle them together and receive 30% off the total price of enrolment!

Download my free guide “10 Tiny (but mighty) Tips to Transform Your Teaching 

Check out my full training program That’ll Teach ‘Em. Enrol for 20% off with the code PODCAST20

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RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:

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• Join The Behaviour Club
• My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
• The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
• Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'

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When I ask teachers what their biggest classroom behaviour challenges are, MOST of the time I will hear….

Low. Level. Behaviours. 

*SHUDDER*

For SO many teachers, these behaviours sit in this difficult grey area. They are annoying enough to completely derail a lesson, but not quite severe enough to warrant a big response. They are the behaviours that stop the learning, and make you want to chuck in the towel and run screaming out of the lesson!

The calling out, the talking over, the tapping, the funny noises, the disengagement, the coming late and leaving early, the whispers, the chatter, the laugher, the throwing things across the room and talking with friends, the blatant ”no” to your requests. 

This episode takes you through my own journey of learning how to not just address, but mitigate and reduce these behaviours, and guides you to do the same through a few of my top non-verbal classroom management strategies!

Join the masterclass - Unlocking Your Teaching Superpower: Non Verbal Classroom Management! The Masterclass goes LIVE on Sunday November 27th at 9am GMT, with access to the replay for wherever you are in the world!

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Check out my full training program That’ll Teach ‘Em. Enrol for 20% off with the code PODCAST20- https://the-unteachables.com/products/1794465

Or simply come and say hello over on Instagram @the.unteachables https://www.instagram.com/the.unteachables/

Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!

RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:

• Shop all resources
• Join The Behaviour Club
• My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
• The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
• Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'

Connect with me:

• Follow on Instagram @the.unteachables
• Check out my website

So many classroom management strategies rely on a foundation of not only relationships and rapport, but solid routines and a whole lot of consistency to be effective. But what if you have absolutely no opportunity to do this because you have either chosen the path of, or are currently in the role of, a casual / supply / substitute teacher (whatever you call it in your patch of the world)! 

I know how incredibly hard it can be teaching one of these lessons, you don’t even know their names! Let alone having the time to really build any kind of meaningful relationship.. That luxury of developing consistent routines? Nope not that either!! 

Now sometimes this is totally fine. Sometimes you might walk into a classroom and the students are really cool, calm and collected and are ready to just crack on with whatever cover work has been left with you. But you and me both know that that is rarely the case.

This episode is your survival guide! It will step you through how to build your skills, and your confidence walking into a classroom of students who don’t know you from a bar of soap, and get through that day in one piece (even maybe have FUN in the process!)

If you want to jump on my Masterclass 'Unlocking Your Teaching Superpower - Non Verbal Classroom Management',  now is the time to do it! Head to https://theunteachables.myshopify.com/products/2030799 for all of the details!

Download my free guide “10 Tiny (but mighty) Tips to Transform Your Teaching - https://view.flodesk.com/pages/62dc1deb87802ab6bcaf6015

Check out my full training program That’ll Teach ‘Em. Enrol for 20% off with the code PODCAST20 - https://the-unteachables.com/products/1794465

Or simply come and say hello over on Instagram @the.unteachables https://www.instagram.com/the.unteachables/

Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!

RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:

• Shop all resources
• Join The Behaviour Club
• My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
• The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
• Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'

Connect with me:

• Follow on Instagram @the.unteachables
• Check out my website

I am sure you have heard this being said before, ‘don’t take it personally.. it isn’t about you’...

Well, if you’ve ever been on the receiving end of incredibly personal, harsh, nasty student comments, you know that it is something that is so much easier said than done. 

This episode will unpack the truth in the ‘don’t take it personally’ advice, but ALSO give you the much needed knowledge and support to protect your peace and manage these really difficult moments in the classroom. 

In this episode, I talk about:

• The importance of recognising how HARD it is to not take things personally, and explain why this might be the case.
• How to create space between the behaviour you’re seeing in front of you, and the reaction, so you are able to respond in a more well considered and impactful way.
• Strategies to ACTUALLY de-personalise things that feel very personal indeed!
• How to get curious about behaviour: Not just that of our students, but our own, too!

Download my free guide “10 Tiny (but mighty) Tips to Transform Your Teaching - https://view.flodesk.com/pages/62dc1deb87802ab6bcaf6015

Check out my full training program That’ll Teach ‘Em. Enrol for 20% off with the code PODCAST20 - https://the-unteachables.com/products/1794465

Or simply come and say hello over on Instagram @the.unteachables https://www.instagram.com/the.unteachables/

Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!

RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:

• Shop all resources
• Join The Behaviour Club
• My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
• The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
• Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'

Connect with me:

• Follow on Instagram @the.unteachables
• Check out my website

Teacher well-being, or the lack thereof, is absolutely no joke. Teachers are leaving the profession in droves… and teachers are usually people who don’t join the profession on a whim to begin with, I’d say we usually have a pretty solid ‘why’. 

So what is going on here? I have a special guest Jodi also known as @thebusyteachersclub on Instagram, who is in the middle of launching her teacher well-being course, Ditch Burnout and Thrive.

You can head to her Instagram for all of the details, or the following link: www.busyteachersclub.co.uk/ditchburnout

The link to just jump straight in and enrol is: https://www.busyteachersclub.co.uk/offers/HQzxwx8a

In this episode, Jodi and myself have a great chat about:

• What is driving teachers to burnout? 
• What does teacher wellbeing really mean? 
• What would it take to address it in schools? 
• And whose responsibility is it, really? Is it the schools? Leadership? The individual teacher? 

Download my free guide “10 Tiny (but mighty) Tips to Transform Your Teaching - https://view.flodesk.com/pages/62dc1deb87802ab6bcaf6015

Check out my full training program That’ll Teach ‘Em. Enrol for 20% off with the code PODCAST20 - https://the-unteachables.com/products/1794465

Or simply come and say hello over on Instagram @the.unteachables https://www.instagram.com/the.unteachables/

Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!

RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:

• Shop all resources
• Join The Behaviour Club
• My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
• The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
• Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'

Connect with me:

• Follow on Instagram @the.unteachables
• Check out my website

Why are we always comparing ourselves? It is such a trap that we can all fall into as teachers, especially when we are simultaneously battling with imposter syndrome… If you’re a bit of an introvert, if you’re a bit awkward, if it takes you a while to warm up, if you don’t have the strongest ‘teacher voice’, that is OKAY! This episode will bust any preconceptions around what it takes to really lead a classroom, and teach you how to embrace your teacher personality no matter what type of person you are!

In this episode, I talk about:

• Why having a quiet or introverted personality can be a super strength with classroom management.
• My best, most awkward, introverted, lovable friend, who also happens to be the most incredible educator. How SHE transformed her classroom culture.
• The 3 lessons you can learn from her and the strategies you can implement immediately in your classroom practice!

Download my free guide “10 Tiny (but mighty) Tips to Transform Your Teaching - https://view.flodesk.com/pages/62dc1deb87802ab6bcaf6015

Check out my full training program That’ll Teach ‘Em. Enrol for 20% off with the code PODCAST20 - https://the-unteachables.com/products/1794465

Or simply come and say hello over on Instagram @the.unteachables https://www.instagram.com/the.unteachables/

Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!

RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:

• Shop all resources
• Join The Behaviour Club
• My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
• The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
• Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'

Connect with me:

• Follow on Instagram @the.unteachables
• Check out my website

Welcome to Episode 3 of the unteachables podcast! Today one of my best teacher pals Chiara and I dig into some of the top tier memories, biggest struggles, and biggest triumphs of our first years of teaching together. Through our own experiences of our shared chaotic class, we reflect on what it takes to engage the most challenging to engage classes.

This episode is chock full of top tier memories from our first years of teaching, as well as diving into a bunch of different topics:

• Being a young leader 
• The debacle of running a whole school event
• Being innovative and dynamic as a new teacher
• The pressures of being a new (and) experienced teacher
• Experiential and hands on learning
• Risk taking, trying new things, and being free to make mistakes in the classroom
• Teacher trench foot 
• Our biggest advice for the most challenging classes

Download my free guide “10 Tiny (but mighty) Tips to Transform Your Teaching

Check out my full training program That’ll Teach ‘Em. Enrol for 20% off with the code PODCAST20

Or simply come and say hello over on Instagram @the.unteachables

Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!

RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:

• Shop all resources
• Join The Behaviour Club
• My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
• The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
• Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'

Connect with me:

• Follow on Instagram @the.unteachables
• Check out my website

Today I am going to be talking about something that reallllly grinds my gears… when you have a really challenging class, a student who is displaying some really challenging behaviours, you’re at the very bottom of your goodie bag of teaching strategies, you go and seek some support, and the only thing that you seem to get back is something about needing to foster that relationship. Well.. it certainly is the core of our behaviour management approach, BUT, it isn’t the magic bullet. This episode will break it all down and give you some quick wins for starting to break down the toughest of barriers.

• My issue with the advice of building rapport with students who display challenging behaviour
• The barriers to building a relationship with some students
• Attachment theory: Organised and disorganised attachment and the impact on building relationships.
• The importance of consistency and time - sticking with it!
• 3 strategies for developing meaningful relationship and rapport with difficult to engage students

Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!

RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:

• Shop all resources
• Join The Behaviour Club
• My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
• The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
• Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'

Connect with me:

• Follow on Instagram @the.unteachables
• Check out my website

We are humans… who also happen to be teachers… responsible for 30 other humans… That leaves a LOT of room for ‘human moments’ in our day to day work. In today’s inaugural episode,  I am going to dig into some very human moments of my own recently in the classroom, hear from some of you about yours, and of course, give you a few little nuggets of teaching know-how to take away. 

This episode covers:

• A very big human announcement!
• Our different phases and seasons of teaching and why we need to honour all of them
• Giving ourselves grace as educators and embracing our ‘real life self’ 
• What is the window of tolerance and why does this matter for us and our students
• Strategies for teacher regulation 
• Our teaching identity vs our real world identity

Download my free guide “10 Tiny (but mighty) Tips to Transform Your Teaching - https://view.flodesk.com/pages/62dc1deb87802ab6bcaf6015

Check out my full training program That’ll Teach ‘Em. Enrol for 20% off with the code PODCAST20 - https://the-unteachables.com/products/1794465

Or simply come and say hello over on Instagram @the.unteachables - https://www.instagram.com/the.unteachables/

Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!

RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:

• Shop all resources
• Join The Behaviour Club
• My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
• The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
• Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'

Connect with me:

• Follow on Instagram @the.unteachables
• Check out my website

Coming Sunday October 2nd: The Unteachables Podcast!

Welcome to The Unteachables Podcast, where your host Claire English is NO stranger to challenging classroom behaviour. And if you’ve found your way here, it’s likely you aren’t either. Teaching the Unteachables is a podcast that is dedicated to making you feel a hell of a lot less alone in these struggles, whilst giving you the knowledge, support and strategies you need to not only survive the chaos, but truly thrive in teaching.

Each week, Claire gets real on some tough teaching topics, explores student behaviour, interviews real teachers, with real human classroom moments, and has plenty of laughs along the way. Think about it as getting a dose of relatable, actionable and enjoyable professional learning straight into your ears. 

So whether you’re in early years, primary or secondary. A beginning teacher, an early career teacher, a teacher in training, a teaching assistant, an experienced teacher, a leader in teaching, a WHATEVER teacher, plug ‘The Unteachables Podcast’ in on your commute to work and let Claire be the ‘down in the trenches’ mentor every single one of you deserve. 

Don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss an episode!

Download my free guide “10 Tiny (but mighty) Tips to Transform Your Teaching

Check out my full training program That’ll Teach ‘Em. Enrol for 20% off with the code PODCAST20

Or simply come and say hello over on Instagram @the.unteachables

Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!

RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:

• Shop all resources
• Join The Behaviour Club
• My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
• The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
• Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'

Connect with me:

• Follow on Instagram @the.unteachables
• Check out my website