The London Challenge
Service Area 6
Improving behaviour – (based on the John Bayley Programme featured on Teachers' TV)
The Offer
Behaviour Management
(a) Audit of student behaviour and current school behaviour management strategies leading to recommendations for action and necessary support and training programmes (from EL, the National Strategies and elsewhere). Audits are carried out jointly with school and EL behaviour management specialists, inspectors or Educational Psychologists.
(b) Whole-school
- training with SMT and advice on policy and strategy
- followed by training with whole staff. Supported self-evaluation (usually informed by EL video takes and peer observation)
(c) Training for teachers and staff in teams and sectors
- training teachers and TAs in classrooms using observational video feedback and peer observation and coaching
Improving behaviour – (offered in conjunction with EL partner organisation Youth at Risk)
The Offer
Student Behaviour
(a) What's getting in the way? Programme with students to analyse social environment, pressures and fears which impact negatively on behaviour; leading to recommendations to the headteacher (for LA and local partnerships as appropriate) and assignment of aspirational or behaviour coaches.
(b) Training students to be lesson observers: peer mentors and active school citizens.
(c) Behavioural coaching for small groups of students at risk of exclusion.
Training school staff in the behavioural coaching techniques.
(Provided by Youth at Risk or Educational Psychologist led teams)
(d) Developing Student Voice
This service provides both a snapshot of students' views and advice about effective Student Voice mechanisms. The Service broadly falls into four parts, although some schools commission just Part 4.
Part One
Student questionnaires in which sex, year group, and ethnic background are identified. Questionnaires focus on the Every Child Matters outcomes and on student views about teaching and learning strategies. This data is analysed and a written report produced recommending key areas to be pursued in Part Two.
Part Two
Student focus groups are selected from each year as well as any groups identified by the school as a result of the questionnaire returns.
Part Three
Initial feedback on student focus groups is followed by a written report for the headteacher, 'Student Viewpoint', which combines the findings of the questionnaires and focus group interviews.
Part Four
Advice about Student Voice mechanisms for the school, which are integrated into the school self evaluation and planning cycle.
Making it happen
To arrange any of these services, please contact John Bayley in the Education London office: 01372 363 630 john.bayley@educationlondon.org.uk or use this electronic form (MS Word Doc)