HGfL: Behaviour for Learning

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What's New:	Organising and maintaining a peer mediators scheme - 19th Sept 2012 Behaviour for learning: reframing behaviour management - 27th Sept 2012
Search all Behaviour for Learning CPD Courses:	Behaviour for Learning
Training/Consultancy Sessions:	School Based Support / CPD
Contact the BfL Team:	Behaviour for Learning Contacts
Feedback Headteachers and Senior Leaders who have recently attended training by the Behaviour for Learning team have commented:
“The Behaviour for Learning project is fantastic, giving space to reflect, plan and collaborate – every session so far has left me inspired.”
“Thank you for all your support and work with us this year, which has made a huge contribution to this improvement – it is greatly appreciated.”
“A constant source of good sense and support, unselfishly and unfailingly responding to requests for advice and/or her time and always turning a maelstrom into a breeze for the benefit of staff and students alike.”
‘Our teachers are still talking about how useful they found your staff meeting on behaviour for learning. Very thought provoking… we can already see changes in the behaviour and mindset of staff. You have been a catalyst for change, thank you!’
‘Thanks for your input on reviewing our playground policy and practice. We now have a clear picture of what is going on and a plan of how to take ideas forward. It was just what we needed.’
‘Great input on Family SEAL. We’ve taken a big step in the right direction to improved communication with our parents/carers.’

The work of the Behaviour for Learning Advisers complements and builds on the work of other teams. Our aim is to support and challenge Senior Leaders in schools as they make strategic and operational decisions about how to create the right learning environment to enable all our young people to:

As experienced practitioners we recognise the importance of supporting pupils in improving their own behaviour and working to establish a climate where all pupils are ready to learn. We can work with staff to:

Corina Foster
County Adviser - Behaviour for Learning
Standards and School Effectiveness
Tel: 07876 131582
Email: corina.foster@hertscc.gov.uk

Hannah East
Teaching & Learning Adviser - Behaviour for Learning
Standards and School Effectiveness
Tel: 01438 843976
Email: hannah.east@hertscc.gov.uk

School Based Support / CPD

The Behaviour for Learning Team can provide school based support and CPD for both primary and secondary phases.

Improving Behaviour in Our Schools: This is How We Can Help

Title	Summary
Don’t manage behaviour, improve it!	Empowering staff to recognise the role they have in improving behaviour and ensuring that they fight the belief that behaviour just happens to them and they have to manage it somehow or go under.
The 10 steps of Emotional Intelligence	Recognise your role Make it possible for people to change themselves
Conflict Resolution	Adult, child and parent responses to resolving conflict How to develop the “adult” response
Positive Engagement with Negative behaviour	Identifying root causes of behaviour Identifying barriers to learning Finding out what works Communicating practical advice that works Engaging emotionally with people not behaviours
Using language to change behaviour	Changing attitudes by choosing the right words Modelling and mirroring to change behaviours
Assertive, Passive and Aggressive stances	Understanding how to recognise behaviours Student responses to adult behaviours Determining behaviour by adult stance
Teaching Better Behaviour	Teaching behaviour like teaching maths Increasing expectations of behaviour change Breaking down the steps of behaviour so that it makes sense
Understanding those Behaviour labels	ADHD, Aspergers, etc What does it mean? What does it feel like? What can we do to help?
Doing what you Believe and Believing what you Do	Understanding what your procedures and practices say about your beliefs Identifying core beliefs and values Matching practices and procedures and ethos to your stated beliefs and values
Getting it right in the classroom	Creating the right environment for good behaviour Planning for good behaviour Meet and greet Engaging students in learning Teaching behaviours for learning
Looking after the emotional health of your staff	Understanding the strain of working with challenging students Protecting your emotional health Preparing yourself for getting it right
Getting it right for individual teachers	Individual or small group support and coaching Highly individualised packages
The power of non-teaching staff to improve behaviour	Bespoke packages to work with all groups of non-teaching staff from those in the classroom to site staff and lunchtime supervisors Creating positive expectations Understanding the impact Mirroring and modelling Working with employers to support effective work experiences with challenging students
Giving Students the skills to make better choices	Behaviour change planning Role of tutor Role of House Leader/Year Leader Role of Alternative provision Role of LSU Identifying root causes of behaviour Identifying barriers to learning Finding out what works Communicating practical advice that works Engaging emotionally with people not behaviours Working with Parents and Carers
Developing effective provision for those at risk of exclusion, disaffection and disengagement	Creating a place of change Engaging in learning Life choices and life chances Good practice models Reviewing for change

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Behaviour for Learning

School Based Support / CPD

Improving Behaviour in Our Schools: This is How We Can Help

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