Stake Staff
Single A4 sheet of Hard and fast 3 An example – RRS: holders
behaviour basic rules ready, respectful, safe Teachers
Parents
blueprint The 30-day magic
Less is Students
All Snapshot current problems. Use evidence.
more. Hands Set simple, realistic and agreed actions.
On Everyone agrees, even if you have to compromise.
It’s time to say goodbye to the punitive culture. Avoid too much too soon. Drip…drip…drip…
Deck. Persevere. You need at least 30 days.
Positive recognition trumps heavy sanctions. It’s not easy. Some days might hit rock bottom.
Kindness is 5 pillars of practice:
a passport.
Never walk past ignoring it. Behaviour policy:
Stop → Notice → Remind → Move on → …
Visible consistency
Consistency is Visible kindness
First Follow up
the glue that Attend Repair
To And
holds love together. Best Restore
Conduct
Always follow up and follow through. Consistent Relentless Scripting
Calm Routines Difficult
Adult Interventions
Your Behaviour
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Punishment addiction
Humiliation hangover
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Pick up your own tab
A culture of certainty
When you shove a pupil to another colleague, you
lose some authority. You may ask a colleague to You can have a fancy behaviour management
supervise them or stand on a united front with you, toolkit but without a culture of certainty, neither
but YOU need to be the one who addresses it. the teachers or the students will feel safe.
Walk away and back again Predictability
When you’re uncertain, or in heated Certainty Students need to be able to predict the
moments, walk away for a short time and consequences of their actions, both
come back to discuss the matter again. positives and negatives.
Guaranteed execution
Map out your expectations
Talk the talk and walk the walk.
“When you…, I’m certain this will happen…” Clearly state and explain your expectations.
For any sanctions, execute them on the same day. Encourage students to keep you on track.
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① “Baddies” on the board Counter-intuitive ① Recognition board
② Token economy ② A sense of belonging to a positive community
③ Shaming and faming ③ Correct all bad behaviour privately
④ Heavy-weight punishment ④ Prompt follow-up trumps the heavy weight
⑤ Kick out the “total baddies” ⑤ Offer them a hand and never withdraw
⑥ Emotional-led response ⑥ Be/Act cool as a cucumber
⑦ Positives cancel out negatives ⑦ Separate positives and negatives
Behaviour
⑧ “They know how to behave.” ⑧ No, they don’t! They need to be taught.
management
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thoughts:
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“It is the small stuff, the daily
Deliberate Too-much-too-soon and
too-little-too-late are both
acts of care, the perpetual counter-productive. Care
generosity of spirit, the “botheredness” and “botheredness” should
interest that you show in trickle over a long course.
their lives that matters most”
The drip effect
“Botheredness”
Ramp up non-materialistic Your eyes want to be on the
recognition on effort: e.g. loudest kids but direct them
display celebrated work , to the quiet ones who go
tweet positive comments, over and above.
give praise notes.
Share the praise with
Notice the unnoticed
Give a kind word to them, Ramp up recognition peers, other teachers, Instead of “no homework,
show compassion to (punishment)”, we say “Do
parents and key adults
them, notice something your homework; show your
the kids trust.
new about them, make willingness to learn with us”.
time for them, etc. Invest Triangulate the
and it will pay off.
“botheredness” Positive phrasing
Emotional currency
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thoughts:
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Teachers need to ask ourselves:
• What will you always say?
• What order will you say it in?
Classroom routines • How will you make it encouraging and affirmative?
• What will you use to punctuate the routine (e.g.
gesture, positioning, vocal tone, music, props,
Refined
technology)?
Like your subject knowledge, classroom routines need to be: • How will you teach/ reteach the routine to make sure
They need to make sense! Discuss the routines with it is productive?
Agreed • What will it look like when it works perfectly?
students and colleagues. No hidden routines.
• What will the pupils be doing?
Different cohorts might have different needs with • What will you be doing?
Customised
regards to what classroom routines work best.
Reflect with students in class:
Engaging Don’t be wordy! Use icons and pictures to present. • “How much effort have you put in?”
Reflected • “Have you caused any troubles for others?”
Students need to be shown a realistic model with clear • “What have you done to help others?”
Modelled
success criteria (how to do the routines properly). • “Is there anything you can do to improve our system?”
Ask students to help you and their peers to follow People forget things. Routines need to be reminded and
Monitored Reminded
routines. reinforced periodically.
Don’t roboticise them: e.g. hold up one finger if you Avoid routine overload. Introduce and practice bit by bit.
Natural Scaffolded
need a tissue, three fingers if you have a question It takes time to establish routines.
Prioritise some routines in a certain period of time and A class might need a different routine at different times.
Prioritised Updated
focus on them. Evaluate, agree and update.
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Tips for meeting tricky parents:
“Some children follow rules.
✓ Plan ahead the time, place and setup of the meeting
✓ Have a diversionary small talk first. Don’t dive right Some follow people first.”
into the matter.
✓ Refocus when digressing, e.g. “I need your help
with…”
✓ Rehearse your exit line, e.g. “I don’t want to take up Help the kid depersonalise their anger. Tell them it is a
any more of your time…” human condition that they can control. Give them
rituals to fall back on, e.g. find their happy place; take
three very deep breaths.
“Focus on what is right for the
individual child, not on squeezing
the child into a school-shaped box.” Approaching difficult behaviours:
✓ Avoid power plays. Show you care and understand.
✓ Avoid feeding badly-behaved children the fame.
✓ Show them that they will not be abandoned.
Behavioural disorders – ✓ Be an imposter – be un-shockable, hide your anxiety, understand their
“Your knowledge of the person is more
fear.
important than your knowledge of the
label.” ✓ Understand amygdala responses, e.g. smiles present a lower level
threat to people; cross-arms might cause them to be alert.
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thoughts:
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Universal microscript An example
• I notice that (you are having trouble getting started).
30-second • It was the rule of (staying on task) that you broke.
intervention • You have chosen to (speak to others off topics).
“Children who behave badly in • Do you remember (last week when you got that
Freestyling → class will inevitably need more positive notes)?
Snowballing of your time outside of • That is who I need to see today…
“The greatest lessons. Don’t give it to them • Thank you for listening.
inconsistency of all: in class too. Limit your formal
managing poor one-to-one interventions for
behaviour with poor behaviour in class to 30
improvised responses.” seconds each time.”
Advance your assertiveness
Script it! Research first
You need to write up a universal • Exaggerate the • Have a think about
micro-script for conversations with positive; attack the • Vary your teacher your non-verbal cues.
When a kid displays bad
behaviour not the kid. tones behaviour persistently,
students and parents, especially research before preparing
difficult ones. • But restrict your vocal your script. “Look into their
You may also want to teach the range: when you lives and help them change
pupils your scripts. They should not control your vocal direction”. Tackle the primary
be a secret. range, small changes problem before addressing
in tone seem the secondary behaviour.
dramatic
• Vary your verbal
responses: you have a
script to work with
but you don’t want to
be too predictable.
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thoughts:
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Some questions you could ask:
• What happened?
• What was going through • How have they been affected? Pick up your own tab
your head in the moment? • What should we do to make things right? • Follow-up is
• What have you thought • How can we do things differently in the future? everything.
since? • Get support, not
• How did this make people attack from all
feel? sides for the kid.
• Who has been affected?
Tips: Children should learn to understand the
• Sit alongside or walk and talk.
• Allocate at least 15-min impact of their behaviour on others.
You shouldn’t
uninterrupted time for the meeting. Sorry
expect an
• Provide water and therapeutic toys. When there’s a apology from
• Stick to the matter; don’t open up need for us the student
other business. Restore teachers to say in/after the
• Ask questions; don’t give judgmental “sorry”, say it. meeting. A
statements. It will have a forced apology
• Resist the urge to take copious notes.
Redraw transformative doesn’t work.
effect.
Repair
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thoughts:
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Studying - DIX, P. 2017. Restore, redraw, repair. When the adults change, everything changes. Wales: Independent Thinking Press.