Customer Reviews
Snooze worthy - By: avid reader, 22 Aug 2006 
I'm sure there's good sound advicein here, but I just can't wade through it. "Getting the Buggers to Behave" starts well & then just seems to repeat itself over & over again. Some of the suggestions are mad (for example talking to yourselfin the pupil's hearing "How will I get them to behave?"), & the general impression is rather confusing & negative.
Great - buy it!! - By: , 15 Jul 2004 
I bought this book prior to my first teaching practice & constantly refer to it for ideas. It is writtenin plain english (as you can see from the title!) & has a slant towards secondary as well as primary education.
It's a book to continually dip into to remind you of alternative ways of dealing with issues & classroom situations.
A dream come true. - By: Mr. D. Bowman, 13 Aug 2003 Trust me.This will help. An easy read with little jargon & simply heads straight into all the practical advive you would beg for.
Cowley gives excelent advice on every aspect of class management. From that kids who walksin late with no intention of settling down to coping with 'that' class on a friday afternoon.Cowley uses all the theory you know to give actural real life examples on how to deal with the tougher aspects of beingin a class as well as how to keep the momentum going once things are going well.
I've lent this to 4 other NQT'sin the last year & everybody is agreed that this is as helpful as you could wish for & worth re-reading once you've forgotton one or two things too..
Getting the Buggers to behave, behave, behave.... - By: Mr. Mt Cosgrove, 10 Aug 2003 
This book has a lot of great reviews & it is, indeed, a decent book for teachers. I'm a PGCE student & so I perhaps don't have as much right to judge it. However, my main criticism is with the writing style & lay-out.
The book is very repetitive: the same points are brought up over & over again throughout & not reallyin any more depth than the first time they were mentioned. In one instance, the exact same sentence was used twice on the same page, but with one noun changed.
The majority of the advice given is common sense & the topics which had the potential to be very interesting & useful (in my opinion, those connected to the use of body language, psychology & classroon lay-out), are only dealt with very superficially. I understand that this book is only meant as a practical guide, but, considering it is aimed at professionals, it seems to have been dumbed down. Either that or Sue Cowley was stuck for extra material for the second edition (I haven't read the first), hence the constant repetition of basic concepts without any expansion.
The examples given of a classroom situation & how it could be managedin a good or a bad way, are, although pretty simplistic, somewhat useful... or at least entertaining.
Allin all, the book contains a few good tips, butin my humble opinion, these could have been written on a single hand-out sheet.
a enlighting book - By: , 17 May 2003 Not only a funny book & easy to read but it is fill with idea's & ways to help over come misbehaviour of the 'buggers'.
As some one just starting teacher training I found it very usefulin overcoming that horrid & dreadful moment when steping into the teachering role for the first time. Not only does give the teacher side it also have helpful comments from students. Would make a brillant buy for any one who works with children not just teachers.
