NQT ConferenceBehaviour for Learning Workshop
November 2009
Dave Lewis Mark Travis
SNS B&A Consultants
Objectives
• To identify features of good behaviour for learning (BfL).
• To consider strategies for managing challenging behaviour, avoiding conflict and de-escalating situations.
• To consider your own strengths and areas for development
Outcomes – by the end of the session you will…
• have a structure to help you plan to improve behaviour for learning
• have planned the next steps to develop your own practice.
Who, from the following, would create the best climate for learning…and why?
Best Climate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Worst Climate
Climate for Learning
School climate:a hierarchy of needs
Self-actualisation
Self-esteem
Love, affection and belonging
Safety needs
Physiological or survival needs
Rules & Routines
Lesson structure
Refining pedagogy
e.g. AfL, LiL
Maslow’s hierarchy
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The 4Rs FrameworkC
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Certainty not severity
Repair and rebuild
Negative
Rights
Rules
Routines
Responsibilities
Positive
Reward
consequence
ChoicesWhat are your strengths within this
model at the moment?
Can you identify an area of your practice
that you want to develop?
What is BfL?
• Definition of ‘behaviour for learning’• ‘developing the skills and attitudes to
become better learners’ 2020 Vision
• Explicit sharing of desired learning behaviours
• Metacognitive processes (thinking about thinking)
• From: 2020 Vision Report of the teaching and learning review group
Planning process
learningobjective
learning task
BfL objective
What I want you to learn
What I want you to do
How I want you to do it
‘Ecoutez’
• NQT Jemima Tiley is teaching a Y9 mixed ability French class.
• Where would you rate her teaching on a scale of 1-10 & why?
• What role do her values, principles and beliefs play in the way she teaches?
• What would you suggest as a target to help her move to the next level in her teaching?
Scenarios
• What would you do?
• Write it down…fold…pass on…
• Next scenario
• Consistent?
Bayley top 5
• In a pair
• Top three ‘mistakes’
Your skills
• Refer back to the 4Rs Framework
• What are your own strengths & weaknesses within the framework?
• What are your next steps?
• What support do you need?
• Who can help?
Objectives
• To identify features of good behaviour for learning (BfL).
• To consider strategies for managing challenging behaviour, avoiding conflict and de-escalating situations.
• To consider your own strengths and areas for development
PlenaryDo my pupils know what my behaviour for
learning expectations
are?Scale 1-10
Do I know what my behaviour for learning
expectations are?
Scale 1-10
What will I do to help pupils to
know their next steps to improve their behaviour for
learning?
How will this look in my
classroom?
Useful Resources• www.teachers.tv • www.teachernet.gov.uk• http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/sec
ondary/behaviourattendanceandseal• www.behaviour4learning.ac.uk/• www.behaviouronline.com• www.pivotaleducation.com/behaviour/• SNS Pedagogy & Practice Pack (18, 19, 20)• Bill Rogers -‘Cracking the Hard Class’/ ‘You Know
the Fair Rule’/ etc• Dave Lewis [email protected]• Mark Travis [email protected]