ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how to ensure that students are in the right frame of mind to learn. Instead of focusing on behavioural expectations, which is a highly contested field, the focus in this part of the book is how we can build up students’ outcomes through our academic expectations. The key messages centre around the ideas of consistency and clarity. Important reflections are encouraged about how teachers create expectations from the praise they use, how engaging parents can reduce workload and how teachers can deal with what is expected of them. The aim of this chapter is to move early career teachers away from focusing on behaviour management to keep students on track and to get the teacher focusing more on the power of engagement.
