Behaviour Modification
Supporting Students
The aim of a behaviour management plan is to modify the student’s behaviour.
The Assertive Discipline Policy focuses on allowing students to make choices about their behaviour. Further strategies are required to enable students to make the correct choices. The Rethink Notices are a way of effecting a change in behaviour.
The value of the Rethink Notices
The Rethink Notice makes the student focus on:
- What happened? Retelling the events and reflecting on their behaviour.
- What were you thinking before and while you were doing what you did?
- What were you feeling?
- What were the consequences?
The following section then helps student to redirect their thoughts to a more helpful solution. (STOP, Think, DO see note below.)
- What other thinking could you have had?
- How would you have felt?
- What the consequences have been if you had thought and acted differently.
The student is shown that he/she has a choice and that behaviour is directed by his/her thinking.
STOP THINK DO
STOP THINK DO is an Australian social skills training program for with children who have emotional-social-behavioural difficulties that effect their ability to make friends. It develops a positive social culture in classrooms, particularly because teachers are modelling the same skills they teach students.
“Behaviour is a person/students message of how they are feeling and coping with the world.”
Students who have difficulties with their behaviour often require special help.
Some strategies that we employ are:
- Individual learning plans
- Individual Student Management Plan
- Behaviour Management Book
- Counselling
- The You Can Do It Program will help us to achieve our School Charter Goal (Environment):
To provide a safe, caring and stimulating environment that will improve the learning opportunities of all students and assists in building a learning community culture of achievement and well-being.
Assertive Discipline Policy
School Rules:
- Follow directions the first time they are given.
- Keep hands, feet and objects to yourself. (Work safely) Respect, caring
- Only one person to speak at a time. (In a class discussion) Respect
- Swearing, teasing and disrespectful behaviour are not allowed at any time. Respect, Caring
- Do not take or damage other people’s property. Honesty, Integrity
Classroom rules (Values) - negotiated in the classroom
Consequences for Breaking the Rules:
First transgression
Second transgression
- Isolate within the classroom
- 15 minutes Years P – 2
- 30 minutes Years 3 - 6
Third transgression
- Remove to another classroom for 30 minutes to complete a Rethink Notice
- 15 minutes Years P – 3
- 30 minutes Years 4 – 6
- Parent informed in writing.
Fourth transgression
- Time out with assistant principal/principal during next recess / lunch time.
- Student completes Rethink Notice.
Fifth transgression
- Remove to another classroom. Send to assistant principal. Complete Rethink Notice
- Student is given detention of 30 minutes after school.
- Parent informed in writing.
Severe Clause:
Principal takes the following action
- Time out of class until situation clarified.
- Student given detention / suspended as appropriate.
- Parents contacted for an interview.
Playground Discipline Plan
Rules:
- Follow directions the first time they are given.
- Keep hands and feet to yourself and play safely.
- Play on designated equipment and in designated areas.
- Swearing, teasing and disrespectful behaviour are not allowed at any time.
- Do not take, damage or interfere with other people’s property or games.
Consequences for Breaking the Rules:
First transgression
- Name recorded in “Yard Duty Book”
- Warning given
- Student does timeout by walking with the teacher. (At teachers’ discretion.)
Second transgression
- Name recorded in “Yard Duty Book”
- Student given Time Out for the remainder of the break or at the next appropriate break. A minimum of 15 minutes time out to be served.
- Parent informed in writing.
Third transgression
- Name recorded in “Yard Duty Book”
- Student given 30 minute timeout/detention.
- Student completes Rethink Notice.
- Parent informed in writing.
Severe Clause:
Principal takes the following action
- Time away from peers until situation clarified.
- Student given detention / suspended as appropriate.
- Parents contacted for an interview.
Supporting Students
The aim of a behaviour management plan is to modify the student’s behaviour
The Assertive Discipline Policy focuses on allowing students to make choices about their behaviour. Further strategies are required to enable students to make the correct choices. The Rethink Notices are a way of effecting a change in behaviour.
The value of the Rethink Notices
The Rethink Notice makes the student focus on:
- What happened? Retelling the events and reflecting on their behaviour.
- What were you thinking before and while you were doing what you did?
- What were you feeling?
- What were the consequences?
The following section then helps student to redirect their thoughts to a more helpful solution. (STOP, Think, DO see note below.)
- What other thinking could you have had?
- How would you have felt?
- What the consequences have been if you had thought and acted differently.
The student is shown that he/she has a choice and that behaviour is directed by his/her thinking.
STOP THINK DO
STOP THINK DO is an Australian social skills training program for with children who have emotional-social-behavioural difficulties that effect their ability to make friends. It develops a positive social culture in classrooms, particularly because teachers are modelling the same skills they teach students.
“Behaviour is a person/students message of how they are feeling and coping with the world.”
Students who have difficulties with their behaviour often require special help.
Some strategies that we employ are:
- Individual learning plans
- Individual Student Management Plan
- Behaviour Management Book
- Counselling
The You Can Do It Program will help us to achieve our School Charter Goal (Environment):
To provide a safe, caring and stimulating environment that will improve the learning opportunities of all students and assists in building a learning community culture of achievement and well-being.
