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About James H Burns
Since 1977 Jim Burns has been working with students who have learning disabilities and behavioral problems. He has almost 40 years of experience working as an administrator, teacher, college instructor, and seminar leader. He is committed to helping administrators, parents, and teachers establish standards of excellence and help them build successful relationships with their staff, students, and children. He has written and designed The Bully Proof Classroom, a graduate course that is now offered at The College of New Jersey, and La Salle University in Pennsylvania in partnership with The Regional Training Center. This course has been endorsed by the NJEA. He has also written “Anti Bullying 101.” A book that provides teachers, administrators, support staff and parent’s 101 tips on how to achieve permanent help in dealing with unruly behavior and can be used as part of any anti-bullying program. In May of 2015 Jim was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Gratz College in recognition of his almost forty years of work in student behavior management and anti bullying. He is available for on sight in-services and keynotes.
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Stay Away From Gossiping And Complaining
Complaining about students in the faculty room does nothing to support the educational
environment. Once you find other teachers who enjoy complaining about students, it becomes
much easier to get into a routine of complaining to each other. This then makes it easier for
other teachers to join right in. What usually goes along with this is a great deal of talk about how
the student's lack of achievement or bullying and behavioral problems in the classroom are
caused by outside circumstances such as family or the child's intergenerational tendencies (e.g.
"I had his father as a student and I am not surprised. He is just like him"). The problem is that
you take the focus off of yourself and the things you can do to be part of the solution. Plus, if
you're badmouthing your students, and other teachers are feeding right into it, you will walk
back into your classroom with a greater dislike and additional reasons for having a negative
attitude toward those students.