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Associated Teachers TV programme
SecondaryBehaviourAndAttendance: Changing Challenging Behaviour
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(all talk at once)
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(narrator) It's not a challenge
that many would relish.
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We've just identified the 10, 11, 12
worst-behaving pupils in year 7.
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Recipe for a disaster.
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- Absolutely brilliant.
- Get that off.
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Sit down quietly right now.
Quickly.
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(narrator) Lisa Robertson,
a learning mentor,
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is taking on the challenge.
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Some of you sitting in this room now
might be able to relate to the fact
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that maybe you've had difficulties
in some of your lessons.
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You've maybe had difficulties
in behaviour
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or the way you've conducted yourself
or made mistakes.
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But we'll be able to work out ways
to make it easier
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for us to get along in school -
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strategies and ways
that will help you
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in order to deal with situations
back in the classroom.
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(narrator) Lisa is on
a behaviour and attendance course
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which is open to anybody
who works in a school.
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As part of this course,
I've decided to identify
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a behaviour-recovery group
for this term with my colleague.
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We are taking ten
of the targeted group of year 7s
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who have behavioural issues.
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First and foremost, I think we're
going to need to identify Tammy
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for a number of reasons.
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That's good. And in terms of
the poor behaviour
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that a lot of staff complain about
and that's evidenced with the data,
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and in this data, Paul's gotta be up
on the list, I would think, as well.
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We've got inclusion-room data
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and we've got all
our top offenders, really,
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from the detentions highlighted.
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Really, that gives us quite
a clear picture of who, I think,
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I would want to identify,
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because these are kids that are
clearly struggling in the lessons.
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- (woman) We're doing an experiment.
- (Lisa) Listen to each other.
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This is respecting others'
points of view.
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You are all going to be doing
exactly the same activity,
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only with a different
learning style.
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The visual style -
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look at the Lego house
in the picture.
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OK? There are photographs there
of a Lego house.
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- Right then, off you go.
- (woman) Let's go, Lego.
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If I'd given a member of staff
a class list
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with the names we've just plucked
out, they would be horrified.
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The fact that Lisa's prepared
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and wants to get stuck into
these kids is fantastic.
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Behaviour and attendance
are central to learning.
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First of all, if children aren't in
school, they can't learn properly.
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They can't learn to socialise
and are unable to mature
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and handle issues.
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And so we need more people
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who understand that
developmental role with a child
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so that they can
input into it, support it,
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and bring about
some positive outcomes.
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(narrator) The course Lisa is on
is aimed at doing just that.
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The National Programme
for Specialist Leaders
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of Behaviour and Attendance
runs for a year.
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Three quarters of it is work-based,
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and intercessional activities
like this one
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are critical
if candidates are to qualify.
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Apart from the three study days,
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what they need to do
is they need to also attend
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at least a minimum of seven
out of ten cluster sessions.
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The cluster sessions
are two hours long,
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and what each candidate needs to do
is facilitate one of these sessions.
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There was
a couple of alternative ones,
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like lack of empathy, we discussed.
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A student might just take
the opportunity
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to pass comment to somebody else -
that is a positive contribution.
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(Jean) When the portfolio is
complete, evidence is put together.
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That's externally moderated
and assessed,
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and, if successful,
they'll get the DCSF certificate.
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(narrator) Science teacher Kathryn
Forster from SouthmoorSchool
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qualified recently.
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Excuse me. There seems to be
a lot of chatting,
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when you've been given
a little task to do.
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Can I remind you
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that if I've got to spend time
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telling you the class expectations,
what are we not doing?
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Who can remind me
what we're not doing? Megan?
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- Learning.
- We're not learning, right.
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The difference I've seen
since starting the programme
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is that I feel a lot more focused
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in understanding
that behaviour and attendance
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is actually the driving force
which encourages learning -
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ensuring that every child
has the same opportunity
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because of behaviour,
because of attendance,
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to make sure
they are attaining their goals.
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80% of you in here
are at what level?
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Level sevens.
That's amazing.
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We've just got to make sure the rest
of you get up to that level.
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This group, bringing them together
in a behaviour-recovery session,
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there's 12 members of year here that
have had difficulties in behaviour
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and difficulties in the way they've
conducted themselves, their choices.
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These are children
that haven't worked together,
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sometimes have difficulties
working in a team in a positive way.
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This has brought them together.
It's absolutely brilliant - A1.
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- What colour?
- Yellow eight and a red six.
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We need to fill all of this
along with white ones.
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Between the other three
of the group...
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You need to agree out there
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what parts you're going to look for,
then feed it back to Rachel.
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Poor Rachel's getting frustrated.
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Go and have a look!
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- One of them.
- This is top.
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- Are you listening to Daniel?
- Yeah.
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This is teamwork.
This is brill.
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Then they're ready.
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It's in the middle.
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Aye, so then go close to that one.
There's a space.
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How did you feel at the beginning?
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When everybody was building it and
you weren't getting instructions,
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what were you feeling at first?
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Were you feeling frustrated
or annoyed?
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- Frustrated.
- (boy) Four red eights there.
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Are you still feeling like that?
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Just concentration?
It's fab, isn't it?
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It's not something I've done before,
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but something I have
every confidence in,
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given the fact that I did these
cluster-group sessions
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based around learning styles
and the impact it has
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on behaviour and attendance
in a school.
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- Did anybody feel confused?
- Me.
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- Irritated?
- (boy) A bit.
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- Annoyed?
- Me.
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Frustrated?
I think all of you got frustrated.
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Did any of the group think about
asking anybody for help?
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No.
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You all wanted
to try and do it yourself, yeah?
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What do you think could have
been done or should have been done
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to change the outcome?
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- We should've asked for help.
- Asked for help.
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If you're frustrated
come lesson four,
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think about
how you felt this session.
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Think how you could put into
practice what you've now learned.
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(narrator) As part of the course,
Lisa works with a mentor,
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a member of the senior-management
team at WashingtonSchool.
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I started my behaviour-recovery
session this morning.
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I took 12 year-7 pupils,
and we did the Lego activity.
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After that, I'm really looking
forward to the next sessions.
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Last year, Mike was actually doing
the NPSLBA course.
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He has actually finished
and completed his portfolio,
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which is an ideal opportunity
because he's now my mentor,
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so will be able
to offer me 100% support
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in the fact he's actually
been there and done that.
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This is a portfolio day,
so we're going to have to have
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all of these reflective logs done
and the witness testimonies
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and the intercessional activities,
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so it's gonna be
quite a compact space of time.
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So as your mentor then, would you
like me to take one and have a look?
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- I can give it back by the weekend.
- Yes.
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(Lisa) As part of
the intercessional activity,
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I will be required to write
a reflective log on that.
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It's basically a log
of my learning -
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what my outcomes were,
what I got from that.
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But, if done again,
how could I do better?
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It's about always striving
to improve, really.
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We have to put in occasional cover,
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cover on duty or whatever,
and cover to lessons.
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But what we've found is that,
on courses like this,
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investing in that does pay dividends
in the longer term.
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If my staff feel good about it,
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if, as a result of that,
children feel good about themselves,
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if there is an impact across the
school, the investment is worth it.
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Since Lisa started to do the course,
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I've noticed
that she's much more willing
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and feels more able
to take on these bigger roles.
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I'm starting to realise
what I'm more capable of.
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And I'm starting to see,
and I'm shocking myself sometimes,
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how I deal with things and,
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as part of this course,
how confident I've become.
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This topic's called
"Ecological relationships".
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What we need to be able to do
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is we need to be able to classify
all living organisms.
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(narrator) At Southmoor
CommunitySchool,
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course graduate Kathryn Forster
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is using a tool she developed
during her studies,
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and which has now been implemented
across the whole school.
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One of the systems I designed
to enable us to ensure
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clear messages about behaviour
and attendance were consistent
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was a learning pyramid
I've got in the class.
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Lloyd, where should we be
on our pyramid? You tell me.
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- Praising us.
- I should, yeah.
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I should be praising you and giving
you your stamps, for doing well.
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Let's not waste any more time.
Let's get on with this.
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We're trialling it.
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We're undertaking research
to see if it's improving,
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helping us as a science department
to make sure the kids understand
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the praise and respect they're
receiving from the staff.
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It is an ongoing process.
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We've had the posters up
in the rooms now for a while.
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I'd like to get some feedback on
how anybody feels they've been used.
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I think it's been very useful.
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The children have looked at them
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and realised what's going to happen
if they do things that aren't right.
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There's clear consequences
all the way down,
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and it's helped to clarify it for
the staff as well, made it easier.
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The attitude of colleagues and peers
towards the work I've been doing,
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I can imagine at first
was wondering why
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I was getting involved
with these issues,
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especially on a whole-school nature,
because I am just a class teacher.
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But it has given them
fresh eyes as well,
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opening up the fact
that behaviour and attendance
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is an issue for all of us,
that we all need to address daily.
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And it's strange,
but as the course has progressed,
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I've felt that
I've been given more support,
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because they've realised how
developing simple tools in class
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helps us all to develop strategies
for improving behaviour in class.
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I had mine up for a week or so
and hadn't used it at all,
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and then my year 10s were
at such a stage, I thought:
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"I'm gonna have to sit them down and
just tell them what the score is."
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This came in really useful.
It made them stop and think.
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(man) Behaviour and attendance
is a big challenge in this school.
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We have a diverse nature
of all children here,
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and over the last
two or three years,
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we have moved attendance on
quite remarkably.
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That's due to
the help of all the staff,
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but also Kathryn coming on board,
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with her experience
in the work that she has been doing.
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One of the outcomes
of completing the course
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has meant that I have been given
opportunities to support more staff
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and develop ideas around the school.
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How did you get on? Did you manage
to get a visible lesson plan?
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Good. So how are you going to
use these? What's your plan?
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I'm gonna give them out as they
come in, so they know what to do,
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and get them to refer to them.
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Last lesson we did the food web,
the blue cards,
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and you took six minutes to do them.
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I'm gonna time you,
and we should be faster.
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I know there's not as many,
so some of you might have two,
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but we should still be faster
than last lesson.
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I've definitely been a port of call
for the ITTs and NQTs to come to,
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just to help give them tools
to promote positive behaviour.
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We had a chat about how to keep
pupils more on track in lessons,
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and we came up with
the visible lesson plan.
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- How did you get on with it?
- Really well.
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So did you feel it really helped
with the kids
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feeling that they had
some interest in the lesson?
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- A bit more motivated?
- Definitely.
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I've got a difficult year-9 class,
and it'll help keep the pace.
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Before I started this course,
you would probably find it very rare
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that I would have the confidence
to lead a meeting.
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But now that's changed.
I feel I'm a lot more confident now.
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I definitely understand
the skills required to lead,
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and how using different leadership
skills helps you get results.
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All I'm interested in is you getting
better levels, doing well.
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Go on. Well done
for getting it finished.
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Visiontext Subtitles:
Chris Wallace
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