A Team Approach to Behaviour Management: A Training Guide for SENCOs working with Teaching Assistants

Developed from training courses run by the authors for SENCOs and teaching assistants, this book provides a clear structure for the SENCO to deliver in-school training on behaviour management to teaching assistants and other school staff.

The emphasis is on planning for a team approach to problem solving within the context of whole-school improvement. The book is split up into a series of units that are designed to develop awareness and understanding through shared training. Each unit offers suggestions for practical school-based follow-up work that the teaching assistant can undertake and provides materials to allow the teaching assistant to maintain a reflective log of their work to support their professional development.

The authors:

• Place their material in the context of the increasingly managerial role SENCOs are undertaking with their teaching assistants
• Take into account the proposed development of the role of the teaching assistant as outlined in recent DfES guidance
• Provide the SENCO with all training materials photocopiable worksheets, suggested aims and objectives, discussion topics, tasks and activities.

The units offer a flexible training programme that schools can tailor to their individual needs and everything is written in a highly practical and user-friendly style.

SENCOs should find it an invaluable training tool for use with teaching assistants and other school staff. It is suitable for use at both primary and secondary level.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Introduction
• Knowing Our Whole-School Behaviour Policy
• Understanding Our Role as Teaching Assistants in Supporting Behaviour
• Are We a Listening Team?
• What Can We Do to Raise Pupil Self-Esteem?
• Do We Promote Emotional Literacy?
• Raising Our Confidence in Managing Behaviour
• Developing Strategies for Effective Behaviour Management
• Setting Targets for Success

Authors:Chris Derrington & Barry Groom

Extent: 168 Pages

Code: SG-0362