OUTLINE
This course is designed to support staff to sharpen their positive behaviour management skills and adopt effective strategies to tackle everything from low level disruption to high confrontation and therefore improve the quality of teaching, learning and progress in their classrooms.
Why do pupils misbehave?
How can positive behaviour strategies improve pupil attitudes to learning?
Does low level disruption interrupt pupil progress in the lessons in your school?
Whilst there have been many dissenting voices regarding the extent and nature of problem behaviour in schools, a consistent perception remains that pupil behaviour constitutes a significant and ongoing issue for teachers. Ofsted also noted that schools are finding it difficult to get proper support for dealing with increasing levels of violence and sexualised behaviour of pupils.
This course will identify the key areas that will help to ensure effective classroom behaviour management. It will initially look at the reasons why rules are in place, how these help learning, and how consistency and clarity is crucial. Opportunities to build and re-build pupil relationships will be set out to achieve win-win situations. Strategies for inside and outside classroom behaviour management will be reviewed, along with simple tips for dealing with low level disruption and higher confrontational situations.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Headteachers, Deputy Heads, Assistant Heads, and other members of the SLT.
FACILITATOR
Simon is a Senior Behaviour Associate with JMC Education, having supported schools all over the UK and abroad since 2016. Before this, he was a full-time teacher for 28 years, progressing to Assistant Head of School in a large secondary school in West London. He has a Master’s degree in Education from St. Mary’s University and he also completed the NASENCo course in 2016 at UCL.
Since moving to Shropshire in 2016 and becoming a full-time consultant, Simon has worked in a variety of roles, including assisting Birmingham Education Partnership (BEP) in schools needing extra support; working with UCL on projects in Wales aimed at raising achievement for children in care as well as delivering regular staff training for both the Marches Teaching School and the SALOP Teaching School Alliance in Shropshire, receiving 100% positive feedback. Over the past couple of years, Simon has supported schools in Surrey and London, including a 9-month role to support the senior leadership team in a Surrey Independent school.
As an education consultant, he provides high quality training and support to individuals, schools, colleges, and other organisations in areas of development such as Restorative Justice approaches, Behaviour Management, Behaviour for Learning, Safeguarding, SEN and working with children in care. Simon has also presented at conferences on areas such as Behaviour Management and Restorative Approaches in schools.
His personal strengths and wealth of experience underpin his work as a consultant. He has an excellent track record of developing students, staff and whole school policies, building positive relationships to enable everyone to achieve their best.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
This masterclass will enable you to:
Understand how behaviour can impact on a students’ learning and how to measure this
Explore the reasons why learners misbehave
Implement positive behaviour management strategies in response to different types of behaviour
Use in-class strategies to tackle misbehaviour to avoid escalation
Create a positive culture for learning across the whole school, using proven techniques outside of the classroom
Troubleshoot common behaviour issues through a range of sanctions
