During ten years of successful practice, BMEF has synthesized sets of behavior management skills from all the leading theorists in the field. These skills are a unique blend of the most useful and practical classroom techniques of Haim Ginott, Rudolf Dreikurs, William Glasser, Sternberg & Salovey, and others.
While most teachers are well trained, we realise that with exceptions, most have under developed behavior management classroom skills. Our training equips consultants to teach specific but broad-ranging practical behavior management skills to teachers. We understand the need for practical techniques, skills, and strategies with which to handle the everyday challenging behavior problems which arise in every classroom. Consultants are taught to workshop these skills and to foster a commitment from teachers to use them.
BMEF's behavior management workshops cover all aspects of behavior management, class & school discipline, and classroom management.
All content has been tried and tested and converted into PowerPoint, session worksheets, overheads, and manuals.
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Opinion..
Reductionism in Education
"One of the oldest, and usually fallacious traditions of Western thought is reductionism, or the assumption that the laws and mechanics of the small must explain events and trends at all levels of complexity and at all times."*
Reductionists in education assert that demonstrating advantage in using a particular teaching paradigm proves its efficacy and usefulness everywhere, always. Using this approach, proselytisers of new age education (and psychology), have convinced millions of the universal effectiveness of their particular approach to education, usually quoting unrepeatable flawed qualitative 'research'. Marketing and advertising and the hand of the entrepreneur eagerly join forces with reductionists in a never ending cycle of new approaches to education.
What seems to be lacking is the ability to accurately assess education methods or to be able to discrimintate between something of potential widespread value and something of limited value or application. "A little leaning is a dangerous thing;
"Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again." Alexander Pope, in “Essay on Criticism”.
Pope is always misquoted, ironically proving the tenet of his poem! “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing” is not what he wrote. (See above). Pope wasn’t talking about knowledge or danger; he was talking about learning, and being sufficiently learned to be able to competently assess the value of a thing, a sobering process, because a 'little learning' informs a painful realisation of inadaquacy.