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Positive Behaviour Management

Positive Behaviour Management. CHILDREN…. ‘Children now love luxury. They have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; children are now tyrants, not servants of their households.’. Socrates 469-399 BC.

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Positive Behaviour Management

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  1. Positive Behaviour Management

  2. CHILDREN….. • ‘Children now love luxury. They have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; children are now tyrants, not servants of their households.’ • Socrates 469-399 BC

  3. Positive Reinforcement • Consider as many ‘common-sense’ reasons as you can think of for why an approach based on reinforcing appropriate behaviour might work for pupils.

  4. Non-assertive • Overly discursive • Wants to be liked • Unclear expectations • Inconsistent response • Inappropriate questions • Pleading, pauses, sighs • Easily drawn into secondary issues

  5. Hostile • Me vs. them • Compliance but at what cost? • Disenfranchising students rights • Taking full responsibility for children's behaviour • Minimising choice • Overly critical or plain aggressive • Demand compliance • Unreflective style

  6. ‘Kids will learn nothing about their behaviour whilst we are wagging a finger at them’

  7. Assertive • Makes rights known without trampling on others • Clear and decisive • Avoid aggressive or threatening behaviour • Separate primary and secondary behaviour • Holds reasonable beliefs • Least to most intrusive response • Proactive • Plans for discipline

  8. `If one behaves as if one has authority, it is surprising how far this attitude exerts a momentum of its own leading pupils to behave accordingly´ • Kyriacou

  9. ‘Your success as an educator is more dependent on positive, caring, trustworthy relationships than on any skill, idea, tip or tool’ • Eric Jensen

  10. Emotional bank account • Having and maintaining clear boundaries and expectations • Paying attention to detail • Treating children as individuals • Keeping your promises • Behaving with integrity • Recognising, acknowledging and apologising for your mistakes

  11. Simple re-direction techniques • The look • Proximity praise • Scanning • Use of name • Physical proximity • Private signals • Humour • Take up time

  12. Positive language skills • Describe the problem • Positive directions • Rule reminders • Choices • Maybe…..and • When……then • What…….what • Feedback

  13. DON’T / STOP • Stop running • Don’t talk to me like that • Stop tapping your pen • Don’t shout out • Stop acting like an idiot • Don’t worry about the exams • Don’t spit

  14. Positive language skills • Describe the problem • Positive directions • Rule reminders • Choices • Maybe…..and • When……then • What…….what • Feedback

  15. Non-confrontational phrases • ‘Good try’ • ‘Could be’ • ‘Sorry you feel that way’ • ‘I understand’ • ‘Wish it worked’

  16. Positive language skills • Describe the problem • Positive directions • Rule reminders • Choices • Maybe…..and • When……then • What…….what • Feedback

  17. Individual management strategies • Remain calm • Non-verbal behaviour • Condemn the act not the person • Short, clear,firm requests • Give choice • Partial agreement • Broken record

  18. Positive Behaviour Management Presenter: Simon Ward e-mail: simon_p_ward@hotmail.com

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