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Introduction
Who we are and what we do -
BMEF provides Australian government approved professional learning seminar workshops, training days and programs for the whole school staff or for groups within the teaching faculty.
Our service is available on-site in schools so that principals, coordinators and staff are able to select and control their own seminar workshop type, its focus and all desired outcomes.
We teach practical interpersonal behavior management skills. Our experienced staff work personally with teachers 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 behavior planning and implementation.
Codes of conduct.
Behavior talks and workshops for parents.
All training is done through workshops and role-plays; is hands-on, practical and non-didactic.
Our founder and director, Jenny Mackay
Jenny is a classroom management and student discipline skills specialist with
a very practical classroom approach to skills training. Her focus is on the
acquisition of practical and useful behavior management skills and on building
collaborative student – teacher relationships. The skills are learned and
applied using a framework that guides the teacher in their everyday behavior management interactions. (In Jenny’s “5–Step” programme, ongoing teacher
behavior support teams perpetuate the learned skills while developing
strategies for current behaviors.
Her extensive teaching experience is throughout K – 12 as well as in tertiary
education. She founded her international consultancy BMEF, Behavior Management in Education
Foundation, in 1995 and has established BME consultancies in Australia, the
United Kingdom and South Africa. She has taught in Great Britain, Australia,
Turkey, Namibia, USA, & South Africa.
Jenny conducts professional learning workshops for teachers throughout Australia
as well as internationally. Her book "Coat of Many Pockets - Managing
classroom interactions," is published by A.C.E.R., the Australian Council for
Education Research. ACER online shop
She shares her time between her consultancy, writing, and lecturing part time in
the Department of Education at Deakin University in Melbourne.
is a behavior management and discipline skills specialist. Her focus is on the
acquisition of practical and useful behavior management skills. She has worked
in the United Kingdom, the U.S.A., Europe, South Africa, and Australia. She
founded her international company BMEF, Behavior Management in Education
Foundation 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 BME, 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 in now in its 2nd reprinting.
Our Value Proposition
By engaging a behavior management expert, our clients are addressing difficult and often intractable behavior issues in a specialized manner. Usually there are organisation, client, class or school behavior issues, or skills deficit issues. Clients find it reasonable to pay for specialized expertise to address a short-term need in a high-quality way. BME is a temporary expense yielding long-term solutions. This is a good option, sensible in both economic and professional terms.
Schoolwide Discipline
"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."
