This work suggests strategies for working with children who can't settle down to work, who have angry outbursts, who demand constant attention or who display a whole range of challenging behaviours.

The book's special format allows the reader to look up the specific type of behaviour and see a range of tactics to help him or her deal with the situation in the short term, and then to consider what might be done in the longer term to prevent recurrence. No more ploughing through dense text - this is all at your fingertips.

By drawing on the good practice of many practioners and by looking at the most commonly experienced behavioural difficulties, the authors suggest approaches that really work. This is a behaviour handbook that should appeal to every teacher and teaching assistant and prove a useful resource for learning mentors, behaviour support staff and educational psychologists.

Establishing appropriate behaviour in the classroom is a concern for all teachers, and children's earliest experiences in school are crucial. Children who arrive for their first day motivated to learn, able to listen and knowing how to co-operate make the best use of the learning environment. Some children find this difficult often because they have not had opportunities to foster these skills.;In this text, the authors: show how teachers can encourage children to learn positive attitudes and engage in appropriate classroom behaviour from the outset; consider what can be done to minimize disruptive behaviour; encourage a range of useful perspectives on behaviour and young children in school; and supply practical, easy-to-implement strategies.;The book should be a useful resource for teachers, school managers, teaching assistants, SENCOs, educational psychologists and student teachers. It is an updated and revised edition of the authors' previous publication "Infant Classroom Behaviour".