Author: Stelios Perdios
www.easyteachepublishing.com
This is a fascinating, useful book that makes you go 'oh'. Within the first ten pages I had two 'oh' moments. The first was when the author explained why it was that I felt obligated to buy a particular gift for a child at £22 in the store when I knew that I could get the same item for £15 online (because there were none on the shelf and the assistant had gone to get it from the back for me and I felt obliged to return the favour by buying it). In a later example of how toy manufacturers boost post-Christmas sales by creating a demand pre-Christmas that they then don't fulfill by limiting supplies, I recognised that some of my friends' children were getting extra presents because they had been promised a certain games console and had my second 'oh' moment.
As NLP for Classroom Management is based on a course, the structure reflects that and you will have techniques that you can use in class by the end of Chapter 1. The focus is very much on practice with just enough theory to help you apply NLP. Stelios Perdios provides lots of examples to illustrate his clear, concise text. He uses stories, suggestions and provides exercises for putting the techniques into practice. On occasion Perdios points out how he is using those techniques in teaching you how to build rapport, gain compliance and change behaviour. The book is straightforward and jargon-free; even those new to NLP will find this an easy read.
In the last two chapters Perdios shows you how to discover the motivational strategies of an individual. This is a more time consuming process and will be of most use if you have one-to-one time with your pupils. If most of your time is in the classroom, then this information may be of interest in examining your own motivational strategy.
All the techniques you'll learn from this book can be used far more widely than the classroom. As such the book is very useful, engagingly written and well worth the time to read it.
Reviewed by Victoria Snelling
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