Behaviour
Poverty, Scarcity, and Behaviour in Our Schools
See why a child living with scarcity keeps forgetting kit, turning up late and losing their temper, and what your school can make easier.
- 41 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Explain how scarcity reduces bandwidth and makes mistakes likelier and costlier
- Recognise the behaviours most strongly linked to income deprivation
- Count the conditions your uniform, equipment and homework rules place on families
- Ask whether a sanction will change a pattern, or whether you can make it easier
- Look for lesson moments, like a maths problem about pizza, that can slow a hungry child
About this course
A girl arrives late without breakfast, in trainers, with no homework and no PE kit. She gets a late detention and snaps at the receptionist. If money and stress at home sit behind a pattern like that, another sanction is unlikely to change it.
This course looks at poverty through the idea of scarcity. When money, time or calm are short, people have less mental bandwidth, so they make more mistakes, and each mistake costs them more. National data links deprivation to suspensions, hyperactivity and peer problems, and you'll turn the same lens on your own school. How many conditions does your uniform policy set, and what happens when a child can't meet them?
It's taught by a behaviour consultant whose book on why children are excluded puts poverty in chapter one. You'll come away asking whether your school could make things easier to achieve, rather than punishing them.
- For early career teachers, governors and 6 other roles. All phases.
Recording
Open in order
- 4 min
Introduction
- 12 min
The Data
- 6 min
Does Poverty or ‘Scarcity’ Influence Student Behaviour?
- 7 min
Assumption of Attitude
- 11 min
Our Response in School
- 4 min
‘Scarcity Captures the Mind’ – Sendhil Mullainathan