Better Behaviour Through Golden Time
Better Behaviour Through Golden Time By By Jenny Mosley & Helen Sonnet £19.95
Foreword by David Blunkett, Home Secretary This practical handbook explores Golden Time, a fantastic positive-behaviour management system. Drawing on the valuable hands-on experience of Jenny Mosley's consultancy team, the authors provide established strategies that will make a fundamental difference to the daily lives of adults and children in schools. This engaging book will demonstrate that the quality of children's behaviour can be a key factor in determining a school's ethos. It then clearly explains how to set up Golden Time, its psychological underpinnings, how to develop Golden Time and how to keep it 'golden'. This book will help you to develop a system that will nurture the social, emotional and behavioural skills of your pupils, making a happier and more productive place for the whole community. (LDA) "We would recommend it for any staffroom" - Child Education "A fabulous practical resource with theoretical underpinning... gold dust..." Special Children "Golden Time outlines a whole community ethos. A framework of values within which teaching and learning can take place" - TES
- Format: 254 mm x 95mm, 176 pp, b&w
- Type: Books
- SKU: W-BBTGT
- ISBN10: 1 85503 39
- ISBN13: 9781855033948
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This is a try golden book! It is a fabulous practical resource with theoretical underpinning. The book explains fully the model of Golden Time, which ideally is a whole school approach, but can just be used in a class. They warn there is no quick fix and conviction is needed for success. This positive behaviour management system grew out of Mosley's Whole School QCT. As you read the book, you can feel Golden Time permeating the whole school, like gold dust finding its way into every crevice of the system. Jenny draws on Maslow and Goleman to support her argument for meeting the needs and boosting emotional intelligence. The text is very clearly laid out with bullet points, boxes and illustrations drawing you into its pages. Golden Time is defined as 'a whole school community clebration, a special reward session for the children who have kept all week a set of school values ... Golden Rules.' Up to an hour is set aside for enjoyable activities. The vocabulary used is very positive with a focus on trust: @I trust you to keep the rules.@ Confidence oozes from these pages. A book written with passion, conviction and enthusiasm - pure gold! Clear instructions are given for setting up Golden Time. The section on how to nurture 'behaviour lemmings - children who immediately want to jump over the edge so they can lose all their Golden Time' gives good advice and mentions Staff Circle Time, when problems can be discussed amongst professionals and parents/carers. The chapter 'The Classroom where Golden Time Thrives' is full of reflective questions designed to help the practitioner maintain a calm and positive classroom. Case studies give further illustrations of practice. Photocopiable materials back up the the text. Well work any teachers' money! Child Education June 2006 This book demonstrates how Golden Time can be a powerful element of the wider school behaviour policy. For teachers who use Golden Time as a desperation measure on Friday afternnons, this book guides them in establishging Goldent Time as an effective reward. The book includes case studies, useful classroom resources and answers to commonly-asked 'Golden Time' questions. The strength of this book lies in its linking of Golden time to the school's positive behaviour management which is why I would recoomend it for any staff room. Quote from: Special Children Magazine April/May 2006
