Behaviour Management Workshop

1. Behaviour
Management
A Planned Approach
Presented by Don McLean

2. A Plan of Action
Steps to Success:
Your Beliefs
What are your expectations?
Design your Plan
Needs to come from all staff
Implement Plan
Must be consistently enforced
Review Annually
Is it working?

3. The Beliefs Model
The
Programme
Collegial
Support
The
Environment
Children
Parents
Staff
Expectations
Other
Stakeholders
Skills and
Techniques
Your
Beliefs

4. Establishing Your Beliefs– Behaviour Meter
Extreme
Very High
High
Moderate
Low
Behaviour Consequences

5. A Behaviour Plan
Step One
• Developing guidelines / Rules
• Give staff and children ownership
• No more than five all encompassing rules
• Don’t be too general (ie. Respect others)
• Clearly back up rules with appropriate consequences and
rewards.
• Every parent, child and staff member should have a copy and
there should be a copy clearly displayed.
• Avoid “Don’ts” but don’t get hung up if you can’t
• Make your rules appropriate to your children
• Ensure they are realistic and fair.

6. Step Two
• Rewards and Consequences
• Praise should be first tool.
• All staff on-board
• Consistent
• Achievable – can be maintained
• Not disruptive to programme
• Planned and organised
• Communicated to parents and children
• Needs to suit your programme.
• Don’t make idle threats or promises
• Needs to be age appropriate

7. Keeping It Positive
Praise Is to
children what sun
is to flowers
(Bovee 1820)

8. Positive Reinforcement
• Praise is always your number one behaviour strategy,
Ensure its Clearly directed, constructive & meaningful
• Try to maintain a ratio of 4 positive comments to one
negative
• When giving an instruction back it up with 2 positives.
• Never remove a reward already given as a consequence of
bad behaviour
• Don’t make idol promises and make rewards achievable
• Be creative when deciding on rewards and they don’t have
to be tangible.
• Remember a reward is given as a result of behaviour and a
bribe is promised in anticipation of behaviour.
• Don’t be afraid to say this isn’t working – cater for your
needs

9. Positive Notes/
AwArds/rewArds
Rewards
Non
Tangible
Awards Tangibles
Video voucher
Best Clean-up
helper
First in line StickerPerson of the week
Favourite
Activity
Task
In groups of four brainstorm five more ideas for rewards you
could provide – we will make a master list as a group

10. Consequences
Quick tips for Negative Consequences
• All staff on board and informed
• Short and sharp
• Age appropriate
• Consistent
• Achievable – can maintain it
• Limit discussion – don’t get in a slanging match. Simply state the rule broken and
consequence.
• Make the consequence fits the crime
• Don’t make idol threats – next time you do that…
• Make everything transparent – written in discipline plan
• Types of Negative Consequences
• Timeout – no more than 2 or three minutes
• Outdoor timeout – the timeout hoop
• Exclusion from an activity
• Social consequence – clean up, sweeping, kitchen duty
• Message home
• Fitting consequence – clean up a mess.
• Red cards
• Demerit points
Can you think of any more?

11. Step Three – Sorting Out the
Paperwork!
•Set up and maintain an incidents record
•Make displays of rules, rewards and consequences
•Give a copy of the behaviour plan to parents
•Prepare any behaviour journals and/ or consequence
worksheets so they are there when needed
•Set up reward areas, tickets etc.

12. Step Four
think oF all
SituationS• Consider your plan if you are
off – site.
• What do you do with the
naughty ones?
• You need a system that’s
transportable?
• What if you have to remove
someone – you need a plan in
place.
What ever you decide always
write it down and give
everyone a copy

13. Step Five
Putting it into Action
• Must be consistently
enforced
• Good or bad you
need to keep parents
informed.
• Be positive first
• Follow up

14. The Final Word
• If it’s not working –talk about it and change it
Don’t flog a dead horse!
• When children walk in you door your rules
apply – they leave their baggage at the door
and so do you.
• Write it down and give everyone a copy
There is no arguments then
• Management – minimise - management,
Maximise – participation and fun!

15. Thank You !
Have You Got ?
 Tasman Schools
behaviour plan
 Your belief s quest ions
 A behaviour met er
 Ref raming worksheet
 Behaviour records
 Workshop not es
 Somet hing wort hwhile
out of t he workshop
Special Thanks t o:
 GSE
 Helen Talbot
 Cheryl Doig