Incredible Years Teacher Course - working doccument

My Goal - Using positive calming strategies to encourage positive behaviour.

The six sections of the pyramid are broken down into:

-      - Building Positive Relationships

-       - Being a Proactive Teacher

-       - Giving Attention – Encouragement       and Praise

-       - Motivating through incentives

-       - Decreasing inappropriate behaviour

-       -  Negative consequences

         Session 1 - Building Relationships - the start of the Behaviour Plan:

 Building strong relationships is the most important thing “a nurturing teacher-student relationship built on trust, understanding, and caring will foster students’ cooperation and motivation, and promote their learning, social and emotional development, and academic achievement at school” 

Student:	Strengths:	Behaviour:	Positive Relationship Strategies:
Nate	Articulate Social Good leader Loves to help Passionate	Impulsive Hits others Impatient	Descriptive commenting, commenting without making judgement. “I can see your blue bricks…” “you have blue bricks on the top” Takes the pressure off less verbal students to respond Morning greetings Getting to know family
Rocky	Social Good academically	Impulsive Leads others into trouble Doesn’t share
Campbell	Good sense of humor Articulate Enjoys others	Impulsive Hits others
Sean	Social Good sense of humor Quick witted	Sneaky Unkind words to others
Jack	Social Physically active	Too physical Doesn’t share Drawn to other difficult behaviour

Session 2: Giving Attention, Encouragement and Praise

There are many skills that can be coached by a teacher: social, emotional, academic and persistence skills. Coaching academic skills can be done by simply naming the things that the students are doing while they work. Giving them the language (can be very beneficial for ESOL students) and is not demanding anything from the student, as questions would. Through social coaching you can label the skills they a showing and praise them at the same time e.g. I can see that (child) is sharing with (child), great job this way you both get a turn. Coaching persistence can give the child the encouragement they need to keep going e.g. I can see you are really focusing so well, even though it's getting tricking you are still working on those maths questions and now you're halfway

Session 3: Motivating through incentives

Incentives can be a really powerful tool for a class, for a group, or an individual. Working with a student and their family to come up with an individual incentive system and goals when necessary is so much more powerful than me just thinking about what they need to work on and what I could give. This gave more ownership to my students, who had already come up with the positive things they needed to do instead of the undesirable behaviour