When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour

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Building strong relationships amongst staff and with pupils and parents allowed us to ensure that teachers could teach and learners could learn. He is passionate about the importance of building positive relationships to drive outstanding behaviour in adults and children. You can read this before When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Having heard Paul speak several times, I had hugely high expectations of this book and I wasn't disappointed. With this in mind, I read Paul Dix's book over the summer holidays which completely transformed my thinking and enabled me to establish a clear action plan around a whole school approach to managing children's behaviour.

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These policies and tactics can have real impact in the short term, but it is vital that they are created, monitored and enforced, remembering the people we are here to serve. Suitable for all head teachers, school leaders, teachers, NQTs and classroom assistants – in any phase or context, including SEND and alternative provision settings – who are looking to upgrade their own classroom management or school behaviour plan. The book promotes a simplified behaviour policy that reinforces clear behavior expectations that are exemplified by people, rather than just endless rules that nobody knows.Our staff absence rate is very low and our students have talked about the fact we care about them more. A bit of everything is needed and people that go on about this book like it is the best thing since sliced bread, I would actually like to compare their school before and after this was released!

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And then pupils are thinking, ‘Well, there aren’t any sanctions here for what I do, all I’ve got to do is sit down and have a conversation with the teacher’. The feedback was fantastic with staff asking how quickly we were going to embed this new way of thinking.Paul stated that -˜small visible shifts in adult behaviour have an incredible effect on children's behaviour' and we have been able to witness this first hand. For example, Dix criticises the high rate of incarceration in the UK, whereas I don’t view this as something I, (as part of my role as a teacher) am obliged to be concerned with. It's true to say that as a whole staff we're at the beginning of our journey, but in terms of whole school impact it has already been hugely beneficial in terms of giving staff more confidence, (especially support staff), giving children a vocabulary to use for behaviour, reducing the amount of expensive time senior staff are spending dealing with incidents and enhancing the school's positive ethos. Fundamentally, expecting a change overnight is unrealistic, but changing ideas, cultures and expectations over a 30-day period offers everyone within the community to practice some of the changes without any dire consequence, but keeping a record of current problems and reflecting upon starting points will help show how progress is being made during the period of change.

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From now I will also be more conscious about reminding myself to thank all members of the school community (children and adults alike) for going over and above. In the summer, I took over as Principal at Humber UTC and my first job was to ask staff to read Paul's book, which was intended as more than just a resource for them to use as a blueprint for a new positive discipline policy.Raymond began his career in education in the 1970s as a teenage flute tutor before becoming an English teacher. Regardless of your own working environment and the behaviour challenges you face, I'd really recommend this book. As a teacher, leader and teacher trainer, Paul Dix has been working to transform the most difficult behaviour in the most challenging urban schools, referral units and colleges for the last 25 years. We will continue on our journey using Paul Dix's highly commended book to ensure that we are continue to develop positive behaviour practice.