ABSTRACT
As has already been explained, there are, at any time, four different patterns of pupil behaviour in classrooms. Category A behaviour is generally displayed by children who respond appropriately to the curriculum and undertake whatever work the teacher gives them. Category B behaviour shows a pattern whereby the pupil is occasionally distracted and sometimes distracting. Category C, on the other hand, comprises kinds of misbehaviour, and levels of persistence, sufficient to warrant a pupil’s occasional isolation within, or removal from, the class. The final category of behaviour, Category D, is one where pupil misbehaviour seems to occur repeatedly despite teachers’ best efforts. The classroom management techniques to be described in the following chapters are based on the assumption that teachers will only become aware of which pupils are displaying which patterns of behaviour by initially treating them as if they are all in Category A.
