Meeting the Needs of Disaffected Students

Dave Vizard is an independent consultant who regularly trains lecturers, teachers and support workers around the country on behaviour management, teaching and learning. He provides seminars and behaviour roadshows for NASEN and SEBDA, and lectures on the Foundation Degree and HLTA programme at the University of Plymouth. He provides training for a number of companies including Lighthouse, Tribal/SFE, DICE, RTA and Sector Training, and has also provided training for Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) around the UK. He has written over 12 books, the last published title being How to Manage Behaviour in FE.

• Chapter 1 - Causes of disaffection; Chapter 2 - Emotions and expressions: Using emotional literacy and impact techniques to raise the self esteem and resilience of students; Chapter 3 - Using NLP approaches to successfully manage disaffected students; Chapter 4 - Supporting students with syndromes and conditions to encourage engagement; Chapter 5 - Motivating students to learn through building good relationships and creating positive learning environments; Chapter 6 - Personalizing learning: Helping students to understand how they can be successful in their learning through developing their own individual learner profiles; Chapter 7 - Focus on fun: Making lessons enjoyable, entertaining and fun to captivate students' curiosity; Chapter 8 - Getting active with learning: Making effective use of starter activities, brain breaks and co-operative learning strategies; Chapter 9 - Helping students to self manage their own behaviour; Chapter 10 - Managing disruptive, defiant and confrontational behaviour in individuals and groups; Chapter 11 - The importance of developing a consistent approach to meet the needs of disaffected students.