Behaviour Management with Young Children: Crucial First Steps with Children 3-7 years

by Bill A. Rogers, Elizabeth McPherson

In an accessible and practical way, this book explores behavior management in the crucial early years of schooling. Behavior management expert Bill Rogers and early childhood educator Elizabeth McPherson focus on how a teacher can establish a relationship with a new class, and explore essential skills in detail through a wide range of case studies. The authors cover all major topics, including:


Challenging student behavior
Positive discipline practices
Behavior recovery practices
Helping students with special behavioral needs
How colleagues can support day-to-day teaching
Setting up and maintaining a whole-class behavior agreement
Behaviour Management with Young Children is an essential book for all early childhood educators, support staff, and school leaders.

176 pages, Paperback

First published April 8, 2008

About the author

Dr W.A. Rogers: B.Th.(Hons.), Dip.Min., Dip.Teach., B.Ed.(Melb), M.Ed.(Melb) Ph.D.(Melb) F.A.C.E., Fellow of the Australian College of Education; Honorary Life Fellow of All Saints and Trinity College : Leeds University, Honorary Fellow: Melbourne University Graduate School of Education

Bill Rogers is an education consultant. A teacher by profession, Bill now lectures widely on discipline and behaviour management issues; classroom management; stress and teaching; colleague support; developing peer-support programs for teachers and developing community-oriented policies for behaviour management, based on whole-school approaches.