Secret Teacher: leaders can't afford to forget behaviour management basics

 What do school leaders and goldfish have in common? Secret Teacher argues SLTs are forgetting the basics of behaviour management. Photograph: Alamy
<P>"Wait! Stop talking! Wait! Be quiet!" the voice in my head is screaming.</P>
<P>Picture the scene in our school hall: three hundred students are sat in tutor groups, obviously next to their friends, and there is a hum of muttering and whispering across the room.</P>
<P>My silent tirade in my head

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