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Explicit teaching push continues in new behaviour curriculum
Australian students will be taught old-school discipline – including how to line up, keep quiet and be still – in a bid to rid classrooms of the behaviour crisis that sees teachers routinely abused, attacked and children disrupted.
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Any effective Principal or school leader already knows these explicitly taught student/teacher behaviours and routines are essential to classroom management. PBL – Positive Behaviour for Learning and TLAC – Teach Like A Champion are highly effective, evidence based and action research proven frameworks all schools should be implementing. Implemented alongside a Trauma Informed Practise framework like BSEM – Berry St Education Model, these are high impact approaches.
Government should stop re-writing the knowledge base as a “reaction” to political pressure. Fund and resource the strategies we know and have proven to work. It’s simply pandering to ignorance rather than helping families and students own their behaviour and do something about it.
Somehow I missed the feeling of being ‘soldiered’ at school because we were required to act sensibly, line up and proceed into class with care.
We had a short assembly every morning, greeted by the Principal, special news announced and any extraordinary activities for the day. No different to a ‘tool box’ gathering for some or short staff meetings before work starts.
Golly gosh I do become frustrated by labels thrown about by researchers who weren’t even a glint in their parents eyes.
I have taught in the horticultural studies vocational area for 30 years and the biggest issue to deal with is the inability for many learners under 50th is to organise their work plan and work in teams especially for practical exercises. Takes a lot of extra time as a teacher. Mind you I have never regretted that past 30 years.
Behavioural curriculum is helpful to manage diverse and multicultural class-rooms. Though individual freedom and learning opportunities are necessary, learning can not be optimised unless there is some amount of discipline and structured teaching learning process. This not only helps students in classroom situation but also later in their life in work context
Positive learning environments, explicit instructions, clear expectations and consequences are the key. Part of the role of school is preparing students for the real world, some of the “experts” have forgotten this. The real world has consequences, this is how our community functions. If there were no consequences, anarchy may ensue, much like many classrooms at the moment, where strangely they can’t find teachers to teach…