Behaviour Leadership for Supply Teachers: Lead with Presence, Not Pressure

📚 Overview

“Managing behaviour” is one of the biggest challenges faced by supply teachers—often leading to stress, uncertainty, and self-doubt. This session is tailored specifically for supply staff, offering strategies that boost classroom confidence and leadership.

By reframing ‘behaviour management’ as behaviour leadership, we focus on how you can establish authority and presence in the classroom—even when you're new to the setting or only there for a day.

While this session is designed with supply workers in mind, the practical techniques and insights will benefit anyone working in an education environment.

Aims and Objectives

✅ Structuring & Nurturing: Avoiding extremes and finding the balance

✅ The “Least to Most Intrusive” continuum of responses

✅ Understanding and addressing attention-needing behaviours

✅ Contracting: Setting expectations that lead to co-operation

What to expect:

✨ Practical strategies you can use the very next day

✨ A supportive approach tailored for supply settings

✨ Insights to help lead behaviour—not just react to it

This is a standalone session, but it also links to other webinars in our Behaviour Leadership series, led by Jake Mansell and Dr Rob Long.

🎥 This session will be recorded and available to view for 7 days after the event.

Please note: You must register to receive the recording — even if you can’t attend live.

Steve Russell has nearly 25 years of experience, ranging from classroom teaching through to behaviour support and leading a team of school improvement consultants. More recently, he has expanded beyond schools to include other organisations, as well as coaching individuals.

Whether working with youngsters, school staff, leaders, teams or providing one-to-one coaching, his aim is always the same – to empower them to effect changes that will increase their effectiveness and promote their well-being.

A Note About Data Collection

This training is funded by the Welsh Government funded Wales Union Learning Fund (WULF).

Please note that, for you to receive support from the WULF programme, we are required to collect specific information from you during the registration process. This information is collected for project monitoring and evaluation purposes only.

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Get in touch with wulf@neu.org.uk prior to making your booking should you have any queries or questions about providing the information requested.