In his distinctive accessible and entertaining style, he offers practical suggestions to support teachers as they face the pressures of accountability, assessment and rising concerns about student behaviour.

Topics covered include:

- positive discipline and the importance of consistency;

- particular skills in the language of discipline - verbal and non-verbal;

- techniques for managing bullying, aggression, rudeness and violence;

- methods to use with behaviourally disordered students;

- the 4Rs - rights, rules, responsibilities and routines;

- behavioural consequences including 'time-out';

- behaviour agreements - 'contracts';

- playground management;

- how to set up a behaviour management plan and express it in a policy.

Bill Rogers inspires confidence in a school's capacity to work as a cohesive, co-operative unit, linked with parents and the community, to manage behaviour successfully.