Cracking the Hard Class

Every teacher meets a class that tests them, and the dread often starts before the first bell rings, with each hour feeling like a countdown to the holidays. The difficulty need not spill into every part of a teacher's life. Cracking the Hard Class offers a toolkit of hands-on methods for coping with what the book calls hard class syndrome. Its chapters cover how to recognise what makes a class difficult, how to build a plan for classroom behaviour, and how to draw on support from fellow staff. Other sections explain how to follow up with disruptive pupils, how to shift entrenched patterns of misbehaviour, and how to help relief teachers who step into a difficult group.