About

Dave has over 30 years’ experience as a teacher and senior manager. He also provided training on Behaviour Management and Teaching and Learning to schools and colleges throughout the UK and abroad. For 2 years he held a Local Authority Advisory Post for Behaviour Management.

Dave worked as an associate lecturer at the University of Plymouth for over 6 years. He has also provided ‘train the trainer’ training for the Learning and Skills Development Agency, and has spoken at many National Conferences including those for National Association of Special Educational Needs (NASEN); Social, Emotional and Behaviour Difficulties Association (SEBDA) and he also provides training for TSL Special Needs Conferences. He has provided Behaviour Management training for a major teaching union.

He was an affiliated Behaviour Management Consultant for Teach First and has inputted to their National Conferences.

He has written extensively on Behaviour Management and has 20 books published to date including ‘Meeting the Needs of Disaffected Students – Engaging Students with Social, Emotional and Behaviour Difficulties’, ‘How to Manage Behaviour in FE’ ,’Behaviour Solutions: A Guide to Syndromes and Conditions’, ‘Behaviour Solutions: A Guide to More Syndromes and Conditions’ and ‘Behaviour Solutions: A Guide to Further Syndromes and Conditions’. He has contributed a chapter to the USA publication ‘Amazing Grades’. His latest publication is ‘Mental Health:Supporting Children and Young People’.

Dave was Chair of the National Association for School Teaching Assistants (NASTA) and Editor of their magazine – Supporting Learning. Dave runs Behaviour Solutions, an Educational Consultancy which provides a practical and professional service in promoting positive behaviour management and looks to support schools and colleges in developing their own teaching and learning and behaviour management systems.

Publications by Dave Vizard

Available to purchase
How to Manage Behaviour in FE [Sage Publishers]
Meeting the Needs of Disaffected Students [Continuum/ Bloomsbury]

Behaviour Solutions Series – Published by Behaviour Solutions
Understanding and Supporting Mental Health in Children and Young People
A Guide to Syndromes and Conditions
A Guide to More Syndromes and Conditions
A Guide to Further Syndromes and Conditions
Activities for Behaviour Management Training Days
Behaviour Solutions for NQTs
Behaviour Solutions in the Classroom
Stress Reduction Guide for Teachers
Fuel for Thought
Brain Breaks and Starter Activities
Teaching 14-16 Years Olds in Colleges of FE
Top Tips to Manage Badly Behaving Pupils
Ways to Manage Challenging Students [e-book available free on website]

Classroom Audit Series
Whole School Behaviour Audit [written with Rob Long]
Learning Matters: Audit of Learning Environment
Behaviour Audit for Non-Teaching Staff and External Partners of School

Tribal Education
An Advanced Guide for Cover Supervisors
Supporting Learning Magazine [authored and editor of magazine content]
Chair of NASTA

Centre for New Discoveries in Learning
Amazing Grades! 101 Best Ways to Improve Your Grades Faster [Dave authored the Chapter ‘Brain Matters That Make A difference to Your Grades.’]

Devon LEA
Magic Moments – Positive Approaches to Classroom Behaviour Management in Devon Secondary Schools – an INSET resource pack with video [co-authored with Rob Long]

Stonebridge Education
Classroom Behaviour Diploma Course [author of content and assignments for this 6-module course]
Bullying in Schools Diploma Course [author of content and assignments for this 5-module course]

ATL TEACHING UNION
Course Modules written and courses delivered by Dave. Accredited by Edge Hill University [to degree and Masters level]
Behaviour Management
Bullying
SEN

POSTERS
Amazing Brain Posters – a set of 4

DEVON CONNECTIONS
Film, television, celebrities, people from history and their connections with Devon

FICTION
A Victim of Others’ Folly – the story based on the likely outcomes from scientific research in the Lyme Bay area in the 1960’s.