Running the Room: The Teacher’s Guide to Behaviour: The Teacher’s Guide to Behaviour

This book gives practical ways to improve classroom management and gives research to back it up.

Do you teach? Do you love teaching but feel like “this shouldn’t be this hard?” Do you want to keep teaching without getting burned out? This book is for you. It is packed with ESSENTIAL facts and skills for any teacher. It combines detailed research with practical advice. Teaching is hard work; now more than ever. Understanding behavior is key to managing a classroom. The author has a gift of writing humorous but not frivolous prose that will keep you engaged while delivering the classroom management skills you have been desperately seeking.

Excellent and practical book on helping to manage the classroom. I highly recommend it to teachers, especially teachers who are not naturally gifted at management. The point is to manage correctly you must run the room! The teacher is in charge.

I listened to the audio book twice this summer. I will now purchase a copy of the paperback to refer to. The information is nothing really new. But, it was extremely helpful to remind me how to fine-tune my behavior management. I usually start the year out strong, and then by the end of the school year, I let things slide a little, since I am worn out. I am going to work really hard to use all of the strategies I learned about and try to be extremely consistent this year. I really think this book is great and good for all teachers to read and work to implement its strategies. There is no magical trick in the book to make classroom management super easy. From my years of experience, you need to consistently use all of the strategies Mr. Bennett presents to have a well run room.

This wasn’t the book I had hoped for. I wanted guidance that would let me walk into a chaotic school and create order, but this book doesn’t do that. Yes, it gives me a handful of tips about how to manage a particular classroom, but nothing that scales to the larger organization.Moreover, the useful stuff is embedded in lots of other wordy material that I felt was off-point and often repetitive, and I found myself skimming most of the time. It wasn’t until the last 15% of the book that I started reading closely.I’m pretty sure I could remove about half of the book’s prose without losing anything important and, in the process, create a more tightly focused product. I reference Cognitive Load Theory as to why that would be a good thing.

Book arrived in a box, yet all tore up and covered in black filth.

With characteristic wit, Tom Bennett has written a behavior book that is rife with (get this) common sensical guidelines for creating and maintaining a behavior curriculum that will help any teacher “run the room.” This joins one of a few books that I will recommend to new teachers, to help them avoid the prolonged headache that classroom management results in from the knowledge deficit produced by their teaching programmes. Excellent read.PS: The writing found on page 254 is easily some of the best in any book written on the subject of education. Just terrific stuff, really.