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

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When the Adults Change, Everything Changes illustrates how, with their traditional sanction- and exclusion-led methods, the punishment brigade are losing the argument. 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 demonstrates how these approaches place the focus back on adults and reiterate the importance of simple human interaction. Here chapter by chapter he asks hard hitting questions about school policies and behaviours and shows how these impact on students and often in a very counter- productive way.

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Responsible adults should be just that - always in control of themselves before they attempt to take control of others. PDF] [EPUB] When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour Download by Paul Dix. Yet, most impactfully, the book concludes with a handy 30-day magic challenge for schools to strive towards in focusing on creating a positive behaviour culture - drawn from ideas shared in the book. Having been in Education for 20 years, Hannah has worked at Local Authority Consultancy level for the National Strategies, as an Adviser for Achievement For All, as Senior Leader in several secondary schools, and most recently as Acting Principal at an Alternative Provision in the centre of Birmingham. As a school leader, the idea of good behaviour stemming from a positive place rather than a fear of punishment not only resonated with my own values but there is much evidence that it is a successful strategy.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.

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As a teacher, leader and teacher trainer, Paul has been working with the most difficult behaviours in the most challenging contexts for the last 27 years. Dix draws on his own experience as a teacher, leader and trainer who has spent 25 years working in some of the most challenging schools, referral units and colleges.

Given the increasing popularity of a ‘restorative approach’ to behaviour, I’d like to give my thoughts on the ideas expressed in When the Adults Change Everything Changes by Paul Dix. They're enjoying thinking about how any old “rules” we had, which were hardly written down or formalised, can be incorporated into these three words. I am a full-time secondary science teacher of almost 14 years, over 4 schools, all in inner-city Birmingham. For the last twenty years, he has worked on behaviour and ethos with thousands of student teachers and a host of schools from Shetland to Watford, and since leaving the university sector in 2017 he has been an independent consultant as well as a trainer with Pivotal Education. A growing gallery of images from schools using ‘When The Adults Change Everything Changes’ to change their practice.

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Rather than a list of quick behaviour tips, it offers a how-to mindset shift that sets staff (and students) up to win. As educators, we are not dealing with faceless statistics, we are dealing with brilliant, funny, smart, infuriating, imperfect human beings. The behaviour approach has changed from -˜stick with no carrot' to -˜lots of carrot' and you don't hear angry staff shouting at students any more.Tara is passionate about teacher well-being and uses the theories of Positive Psychology to inform her work with clients. I think the reason that I oppose the key ideas is because my approach to teaching (and writing about teaching) is rooted in pragmatism, whereas I feel Dix’s work is rooted in ideology. Moving people forward requires our coaches to be relentlessly relatable, to build meaningful relationships and excellent rapport with everyone we work with. World-class expertise is hard won over the space of many years of devoted study and practice, and it is characterised by seeing the gaps in things, inhabiting them and getting to know every angle, every nuance of the bits of your subject that no one else has seen fit to investigate.

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Its been hard work, new grey hairs and a permanent frown Line however, I wouldn’t give them up for anything. Each chapter concludes with three helpful checklists: Testing, Watch Out For and Nuggets which sum up, encourage and act as a quick aide memoire going forward.Charismatic teachers’ lessons were once criticised for being ‘too teacher led,’ and now schools praise those same teachers for their classroom management and questioning. It is about a sustainable model for school improvement where students are truly at the heart of your vision. Before this, staff were responding emotionally to behaviour and were deferring to SLT which was undermining their relationship with the child. His appraisal of Behaviour Policies from various schools with whom he has worked, serves to open the reader's eyes to some of the mistakes we can all make when trying to nurture a culture of positive behaviour.