Partnership, innovation and research to improve practice

Behaviour Management Forum

Imagine you are a trainee teacher. You have been at university for 3

weeks working with peers and tutors preparing for your first School

Placement in a secondary school comprising 1200 children (aged 11-18)

and 100 staff.

Work with a partner (preferably never met before) and identify 3 agreed

priorities for your early development as a teacher.

Steve Holden Partnership, Teacher Education

Department of Teacher Education

Partnership, innovation and research to improve practice

Behaviour Management Forum

Steve Holden Partnership, Teacher Education

Department of Teacher Education

Sheffield Hallam University

Undergraduate, post graduate, GTPPartnerships Teaching schoolsTraining SchoolsConsultation schools Local Authority School Designation

Identified need: NQT survey 2011Yorkshire and the Humber schools

Key deliverablesFurther development, of strong and sustainable

working partnershipsCo-design, implementation and evaluation of

innovative and effective classroom-based experiences for trainee teachers

Development of future training models and sustainable high-quality ITT and CPD practice

Dissemination of learning

420 secondary trainee teachers 4 Teaching School Alliances 30 + schools40 + staff

Behaviour Forum 26th & 27th January 2012

Day 1: School basedDay 2: University based

Programme Day 1

The school in context – Headteacher input "Top tips" for managing behaviourLesson observations – secret students Meeting with NQTsStudent panelStaff panelBehaviour simulator VideosForum theatre Plenary sessions

Programme Day 2

40 minute presentation on social and emotional aspects of behaviour for learning

General Professional Studies session collaboratively presented

Subject specialist aspects of BfLInput from teachers from schools Focus on Behaviour for Learning. Reasons

children might present with certain behaviours which challenge learning

Short term and longer term strategies

Critical success factors Sponsorship from each school’s Senior

Leadership Team Schools expertise in working with trainees Collaborative, high trust partnership workSchools investment in preparation and planning Participation and staff time in schools to deliver Student voice Robust link between day in school and day in

university Balance between common core and differences in

individual schools programme

ChallengesLogistics ◦Balancing cohort sizes/geography ◦Mix and match of trainees◦Coordinating pre-event paperwork ◦CRB/ID checks

Communication – Schools/Provider/TraineesTrainee expectations – observed outstanding

teaching and effective behaviour management

What worked wellExperiencing behaviour strategies within the school

context Opportunity to discuss experiences with NQTs Discussing behaviour and learning with a student panelTightly focussed lesson observations - learning how to

observe for behaviour and classroom management techniques eg First 20 minutes then log effective teacher behaviours together

Picking up practical strategies from teachers rather than theory

Regular plenary sessions throughout the day to gather and consolidate techniques

Behaviour Simulator/Forum Theatre activities/Videos

EvaluationSheffield Hallam University evaluation - schoolsNotre Dame Teaching School TDA evaluation Trainees' evaluationNQT survey 2013

DisseminationTeaching School networksSHU ITT Partnership Portal SHU ITT Summer Conference and regional

events

‘It made me realise that outstanding behaviour management is achieved thanks to the sum of many parts’

‘Insightful, lots of good practice, a rare opportunity to see teachers in action’

‘Getting different ideas of what can and is used has helped me to think about tactics that can be implemented

in my classroom’

‘Pupils say a good teacher is “firm, fair and fun” so I’ll be just that’

'Very impressed with the structure, context, organisation, and delivery of the day. Thanks for all the effort that must have gone

into arranging the day'

Wickersley Teaching School