Who we are and what we do -
BMEF provides professional development workshops, training days and programs for the whole school staff or for groups within the teaching faculty.
We also specialize in training Department of Education officials, consultants and trainers to deliver our workshops and training programs. For details click here
Because our service is organisation-based, principals, co-ordinators and staff are able to select and control their own seminar workshop type, its focus and all desired outcomes.
We teach practical interactional & discipline skills and proficiency in behaviour management. Our experienced staff work personally with teachers and staff, imparting the cognitive, interactional and emotional competencies needed for sound classroom management.
We are able to send our trainers almost anywhere.
We also specialize in...
The "whole school" approach to behavior management, plus school-wide discipline planning and implementation.
Codes of conduct.
Discipline talks and workshops for parents.
All training is done through workshops and role-plays; is hands-on, practical and non-didactic.
Meet our founder and director, Jenny Mackay
Jenny is a behavior management and discipline skills specialist. Her focus is on the acquisition of practical and useful behaviour management skills. She has worked in the United Kingdom, the U.S.A., Europe, South Africa, and Australia. She founded her international company BMEF, Behaviour Management in Education in 1995 and in early 2002 brought her skills to Australia where she is now settled. She has established BME centres in Australia, in the United Kingdom and in South Africa.
Jenny splits her time between BMEF, writing, lecturing and teaching part-time in the education faculty at Deakin University in Melbourne. Her book, “The Coat of Many Pockets,” a behavior management handbook for teachers, is due out on May 1, 2006.
By engaging a behaviour management expert, our clients are addressing difficult and often intractable behaviour issues in a specialised manner. Usually there are organisation, client, class or school behaviour issues, or skills deficit issues. Clients find it reasonable to pay for specialised expertise to address a short-term need in a high-quality way. BMEF is a temporary expense yielding long-term solutions. This is a good option, sensible in both economic and professional terms.
"When the unit of analysis is the entire school, researchers have most often conducted comparative studies of well-disciplined and poorly disciplined schools to identify critical differences in discipline practices. From this research has emerged a list of elements commonly found in safe, orderly, well-managed schools. Commitment, on the part of all staff, to establishing and maintaining appropriate student behavior is an essential precondition of learning. Well-disciplined schools tend to be those in which there is a school wide emphasis on the importance of learning and intolerance of conditions which inhibit learning."
BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT SKILLS FOR TEACHERS
COAT OF MANY POCKETS: Managing classroom interactions by Jenny Mackay, ACER Press, out now! The book is intended for beginning and returning teachers as well as educators wanting to enhance their behaviour management skills. Based on a synthesis of major behaviour management thinkers, the book incorporates the practical skills, techniques and insights for managing individuals and groups in the classroom plus a unique and simple implementation process. Click here to go directly to the ACER online shop and order it. or Here to read the book flyer (pdf). $AU24.95 in Australia, US$32.68 all other countries. Plus postage.