ABSTRACT
A critical task facing all educators whether they are teachers, classroom assistants or learning mentors is to manage the behaviour of the children they teach. They need to do so in order to establish and maintain an environment conducive to learning, both in terms of the curriculum and of social learning. This means finding ways to increase the frequency and duration of the behaviours that favour such an environment, e.g. listening to instructions, sharing equipment and attention, taking turns, working cooperatively, etc. and reducing those behaviours that interfere with meaningful teaching and learning, e.g. shouting out, non-compliance, disrupting others’ work, physical aggression, etc.
