All training is done through workshops and role-plays; is hands-on, practical and non-didactic.

Meet our founder and director, Jenny Mackay

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Jenny is a specialist in teacher-student interactions.

Her training workshops focus on teaching student engagement and management skills.  She has a very practical approach to skills training. Her focus is on the acquisition of practical and useful behaviour management skills and on building collaborative student – teacher relationships.

The skills are learned and applied using a framework that guides the teacher in their everyday interactions with students. (In Jenny’s “5–Step” programme, ongoing teacher behaviour support teams perpetuate the learned skills while developing strategies for current behaviours.

Her extensive teaching experience is throughout K – 12 as well as in tertiary education. She founded her international consultancy BME, Behaviour Management in Education, in 1995 and has established BME consultancies in Australia, the United Kingdom and South Africa. She has taught in Great Britain, Australia, Turkey, Namibia, USA, & South Africa.

Jenny conducts professional learning workshops for teachers throughout Australia as well as internationally. Her new book "Coat of Many Pockets - Managing classroom interactions," is published by A.C.E.R., the Australian Council for Education Research.

She shares her time between her consultancy, writing, and lecturing part time in the Department of Education at Deakin University in Melbourne.
She has worked in the United Kingdom, the U.S.A., Europe, South Africa, and Australia. She founded BME, Behaviour Management in Education in 1995 and in early 2002 brought her skills to Australia where she is now settled. She has established BME centres in Australia, in the United Kingdom and in South Africa.

Jenny splits her time between BME, writing, lecturing and teaching part-time in the education faculty at Deakin University in Melbourne. Her book, “The Coat of Many Pockets,” a behaviour management handbook for teachers, is due out on May 1, 2006.

Our Value Proposition

By engaging a behaviour management expert, our clients are addressing difficult and often intractable behaviour issues in a specialised manner. Usually there are organisation, client, class or school behaviour issues, or skills deficit issues. Clients find it reasonable to pay for specialised expertise to address a short-term need in a high-quality way. BME is a temporary expense yielding long-term solutions. This is a good option, sensible in both economic and professional terms.

School-wide Discipline

"When the unit of analysis is the entire school, researchers have most often conducted comparative studies of well-disciplined and poorly disciplined schools to identify critical differences in discipline practices. From this research has emerged a list of elements commonly found in safe, orderly, well-managed schools. Commitment, on the part of all staff, to establishing and maintaining appropriate student behaviour is an essential precondition of learning. Well-disciplined schools tend to be those in which there is a school wide emphasis on the importance of learning and intolerance of conditions which inhibit learning."

Kathleen Cotton, 1990, School wide and Classroom Discipline, School Improved Research Series (SIRS) - IClose-Up #9

Enquiries: Please email or phone us on 03 9399 8491

All BME Jenny Mackay professional learning workshops reference the Victoria Institute of Teachers' Standards of Professional Practice in the following elements: 1, 3, 4, 5, & 6 and the Principles of Effective Professional Learning elements: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 &9) VIT credits apply.  Provider evaluation code DCP98902