Somewhere between your third coffee and marking that stack you swore you’d finish by 8pm, you’ve probably Googled “behaviour strategies” again.
Yeah. I know.
Here’s the thing nobody tells you in your teaching degree: they spend years throwing behaviour theorists at you. Piaget. Vygotsky. All well and good in theory, but not one of them shows you what it actually looks like when a classroom full of kids decides today is the day everything falls apart before lunch.
That gap is exactly where this free lesson lives.
It’s Strategy #1 from Chaos to Calm, on the one thing that decides whether your classroom settles or slowly slides into chaos: setting expectations. Not vague expectations students don’t understand. What it looks and sounds like in a classroom, in moments you’ll recognise immediately.
In this free lesson, you get:
- A 15-minute video on setting, framing and reinforcing expectations
- The full written lesson, exactly as it appears in the Chaos to Calm course
- Three realistic classroom scenarios (Safe, Responsible and Respectful), with word-for-word teacher language for each
- A “Let’s discuss it” breakdown of every scenario, so you can see why each move works
When kids genuinely know what respectful, responsible and safe looks like, everything else gets easier. Not perfect. Easier. There’s a difference.
Let’s get your room working with you instead of against you.
Want to go deeper?
This lesson shows you what to do when a student responds to redirection. The full Chaos to Calm course picks up with what to do when they don’t. You’ll find it in my Shareify store.
About Sarah
Built by a real teacher, for real teachers. These strategies worked for me as a classroom teacher, and again as a teacher librarian teaching every class in the school, every week.
