To consider the range of sanctions operating in your school

Aim

To consider the range of sanctions operating in your school

Evidence and reflection

Make a comprehensive list of the sanctions used in your school. Distinguish between those which are ‘school-wide’ and those which may be used by individual teachers. Can you create a hierarchy of severity for these? From your own observation how are the sanctions applied throughout the school?

Try to talk to students. What is their view of various sanctions? How do they feel when they are punished? Which punishments do they think are most effective? Which least effective? How would they go about dealing with people who break the rules or misbehave? 

Follow up

Try to get the views of other teachers, students, your mentor. How will thinking about this affect your approach to managing behaviour?

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 analyse and reflect on your management of specific behaviour
• To reflect on classroom management and discipline