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Consistency in Practice
- Consistent language; consistent response: What are the messages that could be reinforced through agreed use of certain cues?
- Consistent follow up: Ensuring ‘certainty' at the classroom, faculty and senior management level
- Consistent positive reinforcement: Routine procedures for reinforcing, encouraging and celebrating appropriate behaviour
- Consistent consequences: Defined, agreed and applied
- Consistently reinforced rituals and routines: In classrooms, around the site, at reception etc.
- Consistent respect from the adults: Even in the face of disrespectful students!
- Consistent models of emotional control in the face of frustration with learning / behaviour: SEAL that is modelled and not taught
- Consistent, simple rules/agreements/expectations referencing promoting appropriate behaviour
- Consistent environment: Display the quality of a primary school, consistent visual messages and echoes of core values
Behaviour on one sheet of A4
Schools and colleges that ripple with consistency have simple agreements in place not flashy 'behaviour systems. Lengthy behaviour policies that cover every eventuality are well intended but do not translate into effective practice. Too much is left to individual interpretation. Too little refers to daily practice.
Low level classroom disruption-schools must address behaviour issues or risk failing OFSTED spot checks
Paul Dix, Behaviour Expert, shares the BBC Breakfast sofa with Maisy, the star of the BBC's programme ‘Secret Classroom' (view clip).
New Behaviour Standards for Teachers
I was asked a few weeks ago to contribute to the Behaviour Standards for Teachers as part of the new Standards for Teachers published by the DfE (full document here )
Managing behaviour positively and reducing exclusion: A checklist of steps you can take
Setting a positive model - at the door, smiling, enthusiastic about working with the children and about the content of the lesson, changing your focus to catching children doing the right thing, modeling the behaviour that you expect to see and making this model overt and easily read, discussing how successful learners deal with the frustrations of learning.
Pivotal Education’s fresh take on assessment
First published in Teaching Drama Magazine.
Julia Steiny: Best Preparation for Learning is Play
Take a look at this interesting article ‘Julia Steiny: Best Preparation for Learning is Play' from EducationNews.org:
Guest blogger Air Commodore Waheed Tariq from the Pakistan Air Force
Guest blogger Air Commodore Waheed Tariq from the Pakistan Air Force Education. Close friend of Pivotal Education, clear thinker on Education issues in Pakistan