I came across this Praise pod blog and thought there was some very interesting insight into supportive behaviour management in action with a focus on praising the students and avoiding shouting. When schools really make an effort to get the balance right, others who visit the school can sense it. There's something different. There's a warmth, a sense of belonging, a sense of caring and community, a sense that you'd like to spend more time here and wishing, perhaps that your school felt the same way. You can tell this because the kids are happy. There's laughter and jokes. There's joy in the walls.
Well it can, it really can. There are some basic principles that will allow schools to make transformational change in their culture and become the school that the neighbouring schools scratch their heads at. You have the worst kids in the worst area, yet you seem to manage to develop them as strong, caring individuals and just seem to have the capacity to bring out the best in them and their teachers.
It's not rocket science but it does take some change and most of all, a willingness to change. SEAL is someway towards the successful pattern, but truly supportive behaviour management needs a comprehensive training and coaching programme for all members from mid day meals supervisors to dinner ladies (are they now called refreshment facilitators?) and of course all staff.
I really have faith that there is a growing body of thought and practice that shows that SBM is and can be a force to be reckoned with and that it will be celebrated as the pattern of successful schools' behaviour management programmes in the near future.
Let's get rid of the domination practices: shouting, isolation, detentions and minimise the number of exclusions our students have to endure. Let's start looking for the good things that students do, not just academic but all aspects of learning and skills and use misdemeanours as starting points in a coaching programme, rather than as a trigger for the punitive and revenge based actions that we see at the moment.
Well it can, it really can. There are some basic principles that will allow schools to make transformational change in their culture and become the school that the neighbouring schools scratch their heads at. You have the worst kids in the worst area, yet you seem to manage to develop them as strong, caring individuals and just seem to have the capacity to bring out the best in them and their teachers.
It's not rocket science but it does take some change and most of all, a willingness to change. SEAL is someway towards the successful pattern, but truly supportive behaviour management needs a comprehensive training and coaching programme for all members from mid day meals supervisors to dinner ladies (are they now called refreshment facilitators?) and of course all staff.
I really have faith that there is a growing body of thought and practice that shows that SBM is and can be a force to be reckoned with and that it will be celebrated as the pattern of successful schools' behaviour management programmes in the near future.
Let's get rid of the domination practices: shouting, isolation, detentions and minimise the number of exclusions our students have to endure. Let's start looking for the good things that students do, not just academic but all aspects of learning and skills and use misdemeanours as starting points in a coaching programme, rather than as a trigger for the punitive and revenge based actions that we see at the moment.