Using Individualised Behaviour Checklists

Using Individualised Behaviour Checklists - "Identify the behaviour problems you need to deal with using checklists tailored to individual students. For the majority of pupils in your teaching groups, a consistent style of approach and the positive reinforcement of your expectations and boundaries will be sufficient to maintain acceptable levels of behaviour. However, there will always be the exception: the pupil(s) who just doesn’t seem able to respond to your use of positive recognition, and whose behaviour does not improve even with the use of sanctions. It can often prove extremely difficult to pinpoint the problem or even to identify the causes of the pupil’s unacceptable behaviour. In this situation, change can seem impossible without a clear and objective analysis of what is going wrong. Becoming bogged down in a mindset of pessimism and unwilling acceptance that nothing will make the student change can make it very difficult to devise a positive strategy of intervention designed to improve his or her behaviour."