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The demons of low-level disruption

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The worst time of Gerald Haigh’s career was when low-level behavioural problems plagued much of his working life. He looks back and draws some lessons for today’s teachers – and leaders

I’ve been reading an excellent blog by David Didau (@LearningSpy) called Bottom Sets and the Scourge of Low Level Disruption (http://bit.ly/2giXEut).

I’m not going to analyse or repeat David’s work here – please just read it. I know you will, for which person, working in a school, is not interested in problem behaviour? When I read it myself, I felt it was the story of my life – or at least a part of it.

I say that because during the worst time of teaching career – perhaps of my whole life if I’m honest – low-level disruption played continuously in the background like that ominous and insolent theme that Ennio Morricone wrote for The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

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