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BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT

Situation

You know that most of your pupils’ poor behaviour results from poor learning. Yet most approaches, naturally enough, aim to tackle their behaviour first. And with all the restrictions that approach entails. Because these pupils’ learning needs aren’t being met, don’t you continue to be all too familiar with some pupils:

- Having a disproportionate impact on classroom learning

- Responding aggressively to direct intervention

- Failing to explore the link between their thinking and their behaviour,

- Avoiding, at all costs, the humiliation of failure with the written word?

 

Solution 

Using visual tools provides you with a powerful addition to conventional approaches to behaviour management. By making learning visible and kinesthetic, you avoid these pupils’ habitual rejection of written text. By teaching them a new way to work, you give them a second chance at learning. Naturally enough, with this new–found control over their learning, along with a growing self–esteem, they start to exert some control over their behaviour.

 

Benefits 

When visual tools are used to support traditional behaviour strategies, you can expect to see your pupil:

  • - Re-engaging with abandoned school work  
  • - Complying with work schedules
  • - Accepting, via a visual tool, feedback on their behaviour
  • - Resolving conflicts by talking through issues via a visual tool
  • - Becoming aware of their patterns of thinking that lead to poor behaviour
  • - Following behaviour plans constructed through a visual tool centred dialogue

 

In Practice

In 2005-2006 Model Learning worked with the Birmingham Behaviour Support Service to provide them with new tools to apply to their work.

In 2006-2007 Model Learning led a 2 day programme to learning mentors in Sandwell. Arranged by the Local Authority, it included school–based learning. The 30 mentors who attended reported that it was the most useful training they had attended in 3 years.

 

Links 

As you can see, these benefits have an impact on other areas of learning. Click on the following to read about Emotional Intelligence, Collaborative Learning and Assessment for Learning.