Combatting Disruptive Behaviour in Maths
How much energy do you use trying to get pupils to be quiet, to be focused, to just sit still? How much time is spent by you getting pupils to conform to classroom convention and how much by them trying to resist their natural disposition to move? It’s exhausting for both you as a teacher with a pressure to keep the classroom calm and pupils as children with bounds of energy. The first ten years of a child’s life shapes their preferences and motivations, it’s a critical window for creating a lifelong commitment to physical activity. If we’re continuously telling children to sit still, what impression are we giving of movement, what long term impact are we having? So, rather than waste all this time and energy trying to conform to classroom convention why not just change it ? Really, where does having to sit to learn even come from? Well, apparently the first school desk was made in 1881. 1881! A lot has changed since 1881, apparently not, however, a classroom environmen