Improving Behaviour and Raising Self-esteem in the Classroom: A Practical Guide to Using Transactional Analysis

This work should help all teachers who face challenging behaviour in their classrooms. It offers support and guidance for dealing with issues of behaviour and makes suggestions for building creative relationships in schools. Through a combination of case study illustrations of key transactional analysis concepts, practical proformas, planning notes and resources that have been tried and tested with schools, the book aims to give the reader the confidence and skills necessary to develop effective classroom management. It provides: materials to be used with pupils to improve behaviour; strategies for building successful relationships with colleagues; guidance on how to deal with conflict; suggestions for partnership planning; practical steps to take with pupils to help raise their self-esteem; and a glossary of transactional analysis terminology.