As a successful tutor centre owner, teacher and learning difficulties expert, the ONE thing that I find many teacher have a disconnect from is what a call for help looks like from their students. In a nutshell. Behaviour. Or misbehaviour of a student. Through my 15 years of teaching experience both inside and outside of the classroom, I've been able to have a very unique opportunity to see the inner workings of many schools, and pick up on the things that seem to thread comm

Ever been the new kid in class? Where you walk in ..... you don't know anybody. You can feel the eyes of everyone on you as you are introduced and then asked to sit down. You feel like you are watching down on yourself and are in no way comfortable in this situation at all...... YES! I know you feel that now you are about to enter (or perhaps have already entered) the classroom .... this time AS A TEACHER. And NO- this feeling will be exactly the same! The first day is still

Student Behaviour as Communication- What’s Really Going On. Every teacher has faced it- the student who constantly distracts others, avoids work, or becomes the “class clown.” Parents see it too- the after-school meltdowns, the sudden tantrums over homework, or the quiet withdrawal from things a child once loved. It’s easy to label this as “bad behaviour.” But what I have often seen is that behaviour is a clue. An indicator that something deeper is happening for our student