ABSTRACT
Dealing with confrontations is perhaps the most difficult task in the eyes of an inexperienced teacher; and no teacher, no matter how experienced, can avoid confrontations for very long. Our aims in the chapters so far have been to show how you can avoid unnecessary confrontations by engaging the children’s interest and attention, and how potential trouble-makers can be recognised. When confrontations do occur, they can present you with a major problem, because handling them successfully requires skills which are seldom exercised in normal social life.
