To analyse and reflect on your management of specific behaviour

Aim

To analyse and reflect on your management of specific behaviour.

Evidence and reflection

As a diary entry record an incident when you were managing the behaviour of a particular student. Note as accurately as you can recall what happened step by step. What did the student do? What did you do? What was the outcome? How did you feel? How do you think the student felt? What do you think caused the incident? Could you have anticipated it? Could you have prevented it? Was your strategy effective? With hindsight would you change what you did?

Follow up

You might want to discuss your analysis with a colleague or a mentor.

More in this chapter

• To understand student behaviour in our classroom circumstances
• To explore and understand a school's policies and practices with regard to behaviour management
• To review the repertoire of strategies for managing behaviour which we typically use
• To consider strategies appropriate to managing different behavioural challenges
• To investigate one's classroom management skills
• To pre-empt general misbehaviour and to reduce incidents of inappropriate behaviour
• To evaluate the beginning of a session and to consider areas for improvement
• To monitor periods of transition in your own teaching
• To review the end of a session and identify areas for improvement
• To monitor responses to a classroom crisis
• To consider your view of disruptive behaviour
• To record incidents of ongoing 'problem' behaviour
• To consider the range of sanctions operating in your school
• To reflect on classroom management and discipline