Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service SPECIAL EDUCATION SUPPORT SERVICE building on ability Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Seminar Outline Why do some students with SEN display Challenging Behaviours? Aim: To examine the reasons students display challenging behaviours and to reflect on our approaches to challenging behaviour and students with SEN What can I as a teacher do about Challenging Behaviour? Aim: To provide teachers with strategies for preventing and managing challenging behaviour 2008-2009 Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Why ? Special Educational Needs – Our Students Over flow - teachers and students Communication and Behaviour 2008-2009 Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Why? Our Students System Limitations Continuums Co morbidity Biology Language Setting the Scene Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Why? Over flow 2008-2009 Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Why? Communicative Intent of Behaviour Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Why? Communicative Intent of Behaviour I’m bored! I’m angry! I’m tired! I want to get out of this room! I want to annoy you! I like doing this! I’m frustrated! I can’t do this work! I’m lonely! I’m rebelling! Management Strategies Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service What can we do? Prevent :Predictability and Consistency The classroom environment The learning environment Class Behaviour Agreement Manage: The Phases of an Incident 2008-2009 Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

The Classroom Environment Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service The Classroom Environment Use of Space: Easy to navigate or too cluttered? Storage space? Displays: Stimulating but not overwhelming? Respect: For personal space / property / classroom? Seating arrangements: Suitable for learning? Quiet area: Independent study? Noise: What’s acceptable level & when? Light: Enough / too much? Air / Heat: Enough / too much / control? Safety: Equipment, storage, wires, etc. Question: What works for me with this class / this student? Preventative Strategies Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

The Learning Environment Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service The Learning Environment Culture of learning? Choice of learning? Co-operative learning? Work at an appropriate level? Varied teaching approaches? Different learning environments? Focus on social and personal development? Preventative Strategies Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Activity How do you deal with classroom disruption? 2008-2009 Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Disruption Strategy Calling out Look at the pupil, raise your hand to model the rule, take the answer from a pupil who followed the rule. Interrupting Continue conversation with pupil. Briefly stare at the interrupter to signal you’re ignoring them. Answering back Broken record – ignore answering back and repeat instruction. Talking noise “I need you to use your working voice”, or visual cuing e.g. Noise-ometer, traffic lights. Tapping Redirect, “I need you to…” Silly noises Behavioural feedback, “You are making a noise. I need you to listen.” Out of seat Redirect to seat using visual cue. Task-refusal “I need you to finish this task by the end of the session or you will need to take it home. It is your choice. I will be back in 5 minutes to see how you are getting on.” Uniform problems “I need you to wear your school jumper.” (Refer to school rules/policy.) Do not ask “why?” No equipment Provide equipment. At the end of lesson provide a reminder of equipment needed next lesson. Collect any equipment lent to pupils. Swearing at another pupil “We speak politely to each other in this class.” (Refer to classroom rules.) “I don’t speak like that to you.” “I don’t want to hear that language, thank you.” 2008-2009 Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Towards a Class Behaviour Agreement Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Towards a Class Behaviour Agreement Basic principle: RIGHTS RESPONSIBILITIES RULES CONSEQUENCES SUPPORT Preventative Strategies Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Four Fundamental Rules Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Four Fundamental Rules When setting up class rules, focus initially on basic rules. In our class we … SAFETY LEARNING COMMUNICATION RESPECT Preventative Strategies Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Most important  Implementation Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Most important  Implementation ESTABLISHMENT PHASE: School Code of Behaviour Class Behaviour Agreement Class Routines Organisation of Classroom CONSOLIDATION AND MAINTENANCE PHASE: Refer to what has been established Follow through on it Consciously address issues COHESION PHASE: Rules and routines understood and accepted – they become ‘the way we do things here’ Preventative Strategies Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Class Routines What routines are in place for the following? Addressing staff Transitions Lesson routine Use of resources Care of own property Class interruptions Waiting work / activity box Out-of-class routines Class rules and routines must be explicitly taught Preventative Strategies Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Teaching Routines and Rules: How? Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Teaching Routines and Rules: How? Discuss and/or explain Model appropriate behaviour Plan positive consequences for following rules Encourage and remind: ongoing reference to rules Check for understanding: pupils explain in own words Role-play: before or after Manage it / implement it All ongoing Preventative Strategies Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Phases of an Incident Peak 5 Acceleration / Escalation De-escalation 4 6 Agitation 3 INTERVENTION POSSIBLE AT ALL PHASES Trigger Recovery 2 7 1 Calm Management Strategies Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service Review Focus on the student, not the behaviour Adapt the environment and your teaching (change the hole, not the peg) Stay calm and be positive. 2008-2009 Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers Special Education Support Service 2008-2009 Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs