Behaviour

Create an Effective Culture of Behaviour Management in your school

Build a whole-school behaviour culture that every adult upholds, so pupils meet the same expectations whoever is on duty.

  • 16 minutes
  • 8 modules
  • 0.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Agree the social norms you want every pupil to show, every day
  • Use four stages to create, communicate and embed a behaviour culture
  • Turn expectations into routines every member of staff applies the same way
  • Take a clear position on zero tolerance based on the behaviours you want
  • Involve parents in upholding the school's expectations

About this course

Ask teachers what undermines behaviour management and many will name inconsistency: a policy applied firmly in one classroom and loosely in the next, with too little backing from leaders. Ofsted's surveys of teachers found the same.

You'll tackle it at whole-school level. Agree the social norms you want every pupil to show. Then work through four stages: create the culture, communicate it, make it concrete in routines for corridors, canteen and classrooms, and keep it going until it's simply how things are done here. There's a clear take on the zero tolerance debate too, and advice on involving parents rather than just informing them.

It's written by a former headteacher, and works as well as the basis for an SLT discussion as it does for your own CPD.

  • For governors, middle leaders and senior leaders. Post-16, primary, secondary and special.

8 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    1 min
  2. Wrap Up

    1 min
  3. Social norms

    3 min
  4. A four stage process

    5 min
  5. Ofsted research on behaviour

    3 min
  6. Making it a habit

    3 min
  7. Zero tolerance

    2 min
  8. The part parents play

    2 min