Information sheets

Individual child

• Understanding child behaviour (PDF 90KB) – understanding why children behave the way they do.
• Proactively preventing challenging behaviour (PDF 119 KB) – one of the most important factors that contributes to children or young people becoming motivated and successful learners is the quality of the relationship with their teacher.
• Process for assessing behaviour – (PDF 90KB) – when assessing a child or young person’s behaviour, observations are far more accurate and you are less likely to get resulting inferences.
• Safety / behaviour plans (PDF 86KB)

Classroom and centre

• Understanding child behaviour (PDF 90KB) – understanding why children behave the way they do.
• Proactively preventing challenging behaviour (PDF 119 KB) – one of the most important factors that contributes to children or young people becoming motivated and successful learners is the quality of the relationship with their teacher.
• Social and emotional competencies (PDF 86KB) – enhance students’ social and emotional competencies through the classroom programme.
• Attention, encouragement, praise and incentives (PDF 90KB) - praise can increase a child or young person’s self-worth and self-confidence and increases positive behaviours.

Whole-school and centre

• Understanding child behaviour (PDF 90KB) – understanding why children behave the way they do.
• Essential elements of success (PDF 115KB) - things to remember about whole-school approaches to promoting positive behaviour and learning.
• Injecting student voice (PDF 98KB) - enhance students’ sense of belonging and connectedness by providing opportunities for them to have meaningful input into school decisions.

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