1. 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

2. 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
Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN
Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

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

4. Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers
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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

5. Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers
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Why? Over flow
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Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

6. Why? Communicative Intent of Behaviour
Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers
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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

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

8. The Classroom Environment
Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers
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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

9. The Learning Environment
Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers
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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
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Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

10. Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers
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Activity
How do you deal with classroom disruption?
Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN
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11. 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.”
Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN
Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

12. Towards a Class Behaviour Agreement
Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers
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Towards a Class Behaviour Agreement
Basic principle:
RIGHTS
RESPONSIBILITIES
RULES
CONSEQUENCES
SUPPORT
Preventative Strategies
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13. Four Fundamental Rules
Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers
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Four Fundamental Rules
When setting up class rules, focus initially on basic rules.
In our class we …
SAFETY
LEARNING
COMMUNICATION
RESPECT
Preventative Strategies
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14. Most important  Implementation
Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers
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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
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15. Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers
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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
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Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

16. Teaching Routines and Rules: How?
Challenging Behaviour Presentation for Primary Teachers
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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
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17. 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
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18. 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.
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Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN
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