Habits of Highly Effective Teachers - by Marie Amaro (Paperback)

About the Book

Habits Of Highly Effective Teachers simplifies what it is that good teachers do, so you can do it too! This highly practical guide will ensure success in the classroom by maximising student engagement, minimising classroom disruption and maintaining your sanity! It's the secret to getting on with the business of teaching. Perfect for new teachers.

Book Synopsis

What do I do when students won't stop talking?
How can I stop students wasting time and disrupting other students?
What can I do about disrespectful students?
Sound familiar?

Difficult student behaviours can keep you awake at night! Effective classroom management can feel elusive and you feel isolated and incompetent dealing with students. Problematic student behaviour can lead to teacher stress, frustration and yes, even tears. You didn't learn about this at uni!

If you dream of a classroom where you can get on with the business of teaching and learning without being interrupted by poor student behaviour, Habits of Highly Effective Teachers is the book for you.

Well-regarded trainer, speaker and author Marie Amaro, has over 30 years' experience in the classroom. As a teacher, she really understands the unique challenges that face teachers today, the difficulties and demands on teachers and how to provide solutions that are achievable and easily implemented.

Learn what good teachers do, so you can do it too!

- How to establish clear expectations for behaviour in the classroom
- The secret to building rapport with students while maintaining appropriate boundaries
- How to reduce conflict with students through prevention and early intervention
- Simple ways to reinforce expected behaviour throughout the day
- How to skilfully redirect inappropriate student behaviour
- Highly practical teaching strategies to motivate and engage students

Review Quotes

Habits of Highly Effective Teachers details the proven methods of effective classroom management that every teacher needs to be successful.

With simple, easy-to-follow tips illustrated by clear, everyday examples and case studies, this book is a little gem!

With the focus on building and maintaining positive relationships and developing an effective learning environment, we are reminded of our power as teachers and the necessity for continuous self-reflection about the way we relate to students.

Dr Rich Allen, Educational Psychologist, Teacher, Speaker and Author

Providing opportunities for self-reflection and consideration of the impact we have on our students and the power we have to shape young minds, Habits of Highly Effective Teachers is a timely reminder of what is important in the classroom. Everything in education comes back to relationships and by emphasising this aspect, the book can help teachers to refocus when there are the inevitable classroom challenges.

Margaret Thorsborne and Peta Blood. Implementing Restorative Practices in Schools

This is a book for all teachers, beginning to experienced. Between these pages lies helpful hints and tips, supported by extensive research, that anyone can implement in their classroom. Marie's book has helped me rediscover the enjoyment and connection in teaching, as her strategies help me to plan my reactions to behaviours as much as I plan my lesson content.

This is a comprehensive and well-written book that I have utilised over and over again in my classroom management. I'm so grateful to have found something so useful and incredibly easy to understand. Without a doubt the best teacher-help book I have ever read!

Stephanie White, Classroom Teacher

This book should be seen as the next new bible for all teachers. No one prepares you for the onslaught of changes to routine, changes to the classroom environment and most of all changes to students' wellbeing.
This book presents the reader with tools to navigate through the hectic life of a classroom teacher and beyond.
New teachers will love it and older teachers can use it to answer some of their eternal questions about discipline and behaviour management. It has been well researched and well presented!
A must read!

Roz Nisbet, Head Teacher, Teaching & Learning, Leeton High School

[Habits of Highly Effective Teachers course] distilled down the essence of the research and academic reading and made it accessible and available. The workshops are a wonderful blend of delivery and content combined with hands-on activities.

Everyone across the whole range of the school gets something they can take away. The follow up is fantastic! No other company works to provide emails and follow up to keep everything on track.

Ian Casey, Assistant Principal, Fairfield Public School

Marie is an inspiring teacher and presenter. She conveys her depth of knowledge in creative and engaging ways to motivate her students, both adult and children. She is passionate about supporting teachers and students and loves what she does.

Wayne Cook, Assistant Principal, Griffith East Public School

I found the session to be amazingly practical and you come away with some really great ideas that are classroom ready for you to implement. As a new teacher it just makes your job so much easier and more manageable and enjoyable. I'd highly recommend the session to absolutely everyone, whether it's beginning teachers or teachers who have been in the industry for a while that would just like some new strategies.

Derusha Naidoo, Classroom Teacher