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Reading the Room: Advanced Behaviour Practice
Created byOlivia Wills
Last updated 1/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Diagnose the drivers behind classroom behaviour
  • Make precise in-the-moment behaviour decisions
  • Intervene without escalating or undermining authortiy
  • Anchor behaviour in purpose rather than constant management

Course content

1 section7 lectures1h 13m total length
  • Introduction1:59
  • Why Some Classes Won't Settle Part 1: Understanding the Roots of Unsettled Class16:20
  • Why Some Classes Won't Settle Part 2: Authority in Action12:20
  • Why Behaviour Worsens After You Intervene Part 1: Why Interventions Backfire11:52
  • Why Behaviour Worsens After You Intervene Part 2: Intervening Without Escalation10:15
  • Why Some Classes Never Feel Yours Part 1: When a Class Never Becomes Yours12:26
  • Why Some Classes Never Feel Yours Part 2: Building Real Ownership8:27

Requirements

  • No prior experience or specific behaviour approach is required - just a willingness to reflect on classroom decisions and try a different lens

Description

Reading the Room: Advanced Behaviour Practice is a practical, research-backed course for teachers who want to understand, anticipate, and influence classroom behaviour with confidence.

Through three interconnected modules, you’ll explore the hidden dynamics that shape every classroom:

  1. Why Some Classes Won’t Settle – uncover the invisible systems behind persistent disruption, and learn how to anchor behaviour before it escalates.

  2. Why Behaviour Worsens After You Intervene – discover how timing, attention, and emotional temperature affect outcomes, and how to intervene without destabilising the room.

  3. When Some Classes Never Feel Fully Yours – build ownership and orientation so pupils engage independently, creating classrooms that feel purposeful, calm, and sustainable.

You’ll learn to:

  • Read the room: spot subtle cues in attention, energy, and group dynamics before they become issues

  • Anchor behaviour in the lesson itself: design routines, tasks, and structures that give pupils clarity and purpose

  • Maintain stability and ownership: intervene strategically while empowering pupils to self-regulate

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to create classrooms that operate smoothly, even when you’re not watching, turning behaviour from something you manage into something the class maintains naturally.

This course is not about stricter rules or constant monitoring — it’s about understanding and designing the systems that make classrooms work, so you can teach with calm, clarity, and impact.

Who this course is for:

  • Aspiring Teachers
  • Trainee Teachers
  • Early Careers Teachers
  • Experienced Teachers
  • Supply Teachers
  • Tutors & Small-Group Educators
  • Teacher Mentors & Coaches