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Trainee teachers will be taught to stand up straight and look troublemakers in the eye under new guidelines to help improve discipline in the classroom.
Trainee teachers will be given lessons on how to be authoritative, including advice on when to be stern with students and when to punish them.
The classes, developed by the Government’s behaviour and discipline advisor Charlie Taylor, are aimed at achieving “best practice” in the classroom.
Mr Taylor, himself a former headteacher, produced the recommendations after discovering some trainee teachers had received as little as one lecture in controlling their classrooms.
More than 40 per cent of teachers surveyed reported their initial training was poor or very poor, saying they left the profession as a result of poor discipline standards.
Mr Taylor, who becomes chief executive of the Teaching Agency in September, said: “Too often trainees aren’t taught the skills they need to ensure discipline in the classroom. We must spread best practice because without strong discipline and good behaviour children can’t learn.
“There are essential skills – including some which are underestimated, such as body language and posture – that all teachers need in order to manage behaviour effectively.”
Advice includes varying the tone and volume of the voice, making use of classroom space and using eye contact with pupils and using praise, rewards and sanctions to improve behaviour.
Accordin to the guidelines, teachers should know how to "vary the tone and volume of their voice to teach effectively and manage behaviour" and "stand, move, make use of the space and use eye contact in order to be an authoritative presence in the classroom".
They should also "use praise effectively to improve behaviour, and understand how to apply rewards and sanctions to improve behaviour" and "take appropriate and effective action when they are confronted by more extreme behaviour".
Trainee teachers will be given lessons on how to be authoritative, including advice on when to be stern with students and when to punish them.
The classes, developed by the Government’s behaviour and discipline advisor Charlie Taylor, are aimed at achieving “best practice” in the classroom.
Mr Taylor, himself a former headteacher, produced the recommendations after discovering some trainee teachers had received as little as one lecture in controlling their classrooms.
More than 40 per cent of teachers surveyed reported their initial training was poor or very poor, saying they left the profession as a result of poor discipline standards.
Mr Taylor, who becomes chief executive of the Teaching Agency in September, said: “Too often trainees aren’t taught the skills they need to ensure discipline in the classroom. We must spread best practice because without strong discipline and good behaviour children can’t learn.
“There are essential skills – including some which are underestimated, such as body language and posture – that all teachers need in order to manage behaviour effectively.”
Advice includes varying the tone and volume of the voice, making use of classroom space and using eye contact with pupils and using praise, rewards and sanctions to improve behaviour.
Accordin to the guidelines, teachers should know how to "vary the tone and volume of their voice to teach effectively and manage behaviour" and "stand, move, make use of the space and use eye contact in order to be an authoritative presence in the classroom".
They should also "use praise effectively to improve behaviour, and understand how to apply rewards and sanctions to improve behaviour" and "take appropriate and effective action when they are confronted by more extreme behaviour".
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