Paul Dix and Bill Gribble quoted in Select Committee Report on Behaviour and Discipline
"The best schools hang a sign above the door, "This is how we do it here."
The House of commons Education Select Committee today published its report on Behaviour and Discipline in Schools. Both Paul Dix and Bill Gribble gave evidence to the committee and they are both quoted in the report.
Paul is quoted in section 4 'Leading and managing good behaviour;challenging poor practice':
"Mr Paul Dix, a behaviour consultant, told us of the need for schools to be absolutely clear and consistent about the parameters within which the school expects their pupils to behave:
The best schools have a sign above the door regardless of what context they are working in, which says, "This is how we do it here." When you walk through the doors of that school, the expectations of behaviour are different from those outside. The behaviours that you use in the community or the behaviours that you use with your parents might well work out there, but when you walk through that door, that is how they do it there. The best schools have absolute consistency. I don't care whether the system they use is behaviourist or whether the system they use is extremely old-fashioned, the critical difference is that people sign up to it and teachers act with one voice and one message: "This is how we do it here"
Bill is quoted in the section on 'Early identification of and intervention with pupils at risk of exclusion:
Bill Gribble, a behaviour consultant, stressed the value of education welfare services, telling
us that “when I was a head teacher, the education welfare officer was my eyes and ears in
the community—and certainly my eyes and ears for early warnings of problems with
particularly vulnerable children either coming into the area or developing within the
area"
Date: 03/02/2011
