Deteriorating behaviour and lack of support bringing the profession to its knees

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“The proportion of teachers reporting difficulty in managing pupil behaviour has increased “significantly” since last year, according to new research.

More than four in 10 teachers now say they are struggling to cope with poor behaviour.

Many teachers say they are not being adequately supported by their senior leadership teams with behaviour management, according to the research by the Education Support Partnership – a charity that supports teachers with poor mental health.”

www.tes.com/news/exclusive-four-10-teachers-struggle-behaviour

I would call this the ‘Paul Dix effect’.

The backlash in the press and from parents about exclusions, isolation and any attempts to discipline that are more than a ‘restorative conversation’ is damaging.

But Dix’s assertion that asking for support with behaviour management diminishes your authority in the classroom has enabled swathes of lazy-arsed SLT to simply throw back any complaints about poor behaviour to the teacher, without any effective tools to deal with it.

That is actually what I feel like I am.

And I am not a HOY any more. It seems my school may not have noticed....... attempts to

🍷 for Piggy

exactly what I am doing fish!!

IME apart from students with legitimate SEN the worst behaved kids had the worst type of parents who refused to accept their kids bad behaviour, were aggressive, belligerent and at time utterly vile. It was ALWAYS the teacher's fault. Everything was a battle with them. Kids were often ride and aggressive towards the parents to with little if any discipline. SLT were too scared to deal with these parents. It was soul destroying.

As regards Paul Dix and the pivotal approach, I did a little experiment this weekend. DS in Y4 was complaining that a naughty boy in his class disrupts Music. I put it to him that it was the teacher’s fault: this boy behaves for the normal class teacher so it must be the Music teacher’s problem. She needs to get to know him and build a relationship with him.
DS: ‘What? You’re not understanding the situation. We have Music once a week! How can she get to know him. He’s the one making the choice, not her. He chooses not to listen’.
Shall we get 9 year old to explain it to SLT??!

More Paul Dix destroying schools:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/secondary/3624896-Staff-strike-over-pupil-violence-at-outstanding-school-with-Pivotal-behaviour-policy

I think parents need to be aware of the increasing behaviour problems in our schools. So many threads complaining about uniform policies and isolation rooms but would they really prefer their kid to be unable to learn due to SLT pandering to disruptive kids with cosy chats instead of effective sanctions?

Ha ha we have restorative conversations.

Kid dicks about.

You have a restorative conversation. Kid nods and looks chastised.

Next lesson, kid dicks about

With that being said, I personally find behaviour better now but maybe that's because I've got experience under my belt. 2003 - 2013 maybe were grim years.