Behaviour Management

Anita Wood
Behaviour management is an area consistently identified by newly qualified teachers (NQTs) as
an area of professional expertise in which trainees feel they would benefit from greater
support as they enter teaching (Buell et al., 1999; Cains and Brown, 1996; Cains and Brown,
1998a; Cains and Brown, 1998b; Gallio and Little, 2003)

Aims:
• To define behaviour management
• To understand some key theories of behaviour
management
• To identify strategies that may lead to
successful behaviour management
What do you understand by the term behaviour
management?
http://bbc.in/2m7VbaN

“One might assume that behaviour management involves a

relationship of power and control, where the teachers shape
and manage the behaviour of children and young people,
whose autonomy is undermined and overlooked.”
Theories of behaviour
management
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

“What is necessary to change a person is to

change his awareness of himself.”
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Goal = pupil self-regulation of behaviour
 Rules

Behaviour
management

Routines Relationships
 Behaviourist Theory and the
work of B. F. Skinner

“The way positive reinforcement is carried out

is more important than the amount.”

Skinner, B. F. (1953) The Possibility Of A Science Of Human Behavior. NY: The Free House
http://www.teachertoolkit.me/2014/10/25/bri
lliant-behaviour-by-teachertoolkit/
Intrinsic motivation extrinsic motivation
 Alfie Kohn
Student Directed Learning
Theory
Kohn, A. (2006) Beyond Discipline (2nd Ed), ASCD,
USA

• Grades and praise, kill intrinsic motivation and the desire to learn

• The punishment/praise grade system explains why the system has failed so many
students as the competition norms of most classrooms indicate that for every
winner/top of the class, there will be thirty-nine losers dealing with the inherent self-
esteem issues surrounding their constant failure.

• Kohn states that rewards destroy a student’s inherent motivation and reduce their
natural interest in a subject.

• Thinking deeply and critically should be the first goal of education

Assertive tactics in practice https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1bIQ1Hg00c
 As a group, discuss:
Which theories underpinned your placement school(s)’
approach to behaviour management?

Skinner Glasser’s Kohn

behaviourism choice theory Student directed
learning theory
Canter and
Canter
Putting the child at the heart of a
behaviour management approach
https://www.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every
_kid_needs_a_champion
Some Key readings

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/behaviour-and-discipline-in-schools

https://
dera.ioe.ac.uk/12538/1/download%3fid=158591&filename=promoting-the-conditi
ons-for-positive-behaviour-to-help-every-child-succeed.pdf