End of the Year...

As I come closer to the end of the year I read again Angela's blog about things she has used to excite and ignite the classroom.  I find it really interesting that at the time when people are most tired (both teachers and students) we revert back to what we always do rather than to what has worked.  During our course on boys education we learnt many strategies that were easy to apply and that worked well. simple things such as using movement in lessons, giving children, particularly boys warning about the end of a lesson keeping hydrated to mention but a few.  I shared many. A of the ideas with our classroom teachers and was pleased to see them being implemented.  However, over the last few weeks I have found that I have to deal with many behaviour problems,most of which could have been avoided if the strategies we have  learnt were used.  So I guess my next job is to find ways to help get the strategies become a habit.  I am going to try and create posters for each class and look at holding plc's with staff to model and teach strategies to use.  Any other ideas?