Try ideas to manage behaviour management workload
Case study
School details
School name: King Charles I School
Location: Worcestershire
Phase: Secondary
Number of pupils: 1000
Contact details: Email Deputy Headteacher Ruth Allen at cgibson@kingcharles1.worcs.sch.uk
Impact and outcomes
We made these changes to enable every teacher to become highly effective by:
- ensuring every teacher has time to focus on what is important - planning, teaching and feedback
- believing in simplicity, always taking the shortest route and aiming for maximum impact on student learning with minimal workload for staff
- continuously reviewing and evaluating our systems in order to support all staff to achieve a healthy work life balance
Background from Ruth Allen, Deputy Headteacher
At King Charles I School we know that teaching is exhilarating and rewarding, but recognise that it can also be exhausting. We understand that time is precious and that tired teachers do not make effective teachers. Our aim is for staff to not have to take work home.
8 ways that we manage behaviour management workload
Everyone has the highest expectations of behaviour, with all staff (not just teaching staff) reinforcing those expectations.
A clear system of consequences or sanctions which is applied consistently so staff don’t have battles with students. Simple and quick logging of the consequences/sanctions.
Clear and robust behaviour systems that underpins impeccable behaviour, so you are free to teach.
Centralised after school detentions for all behaviour and homework issues to ease the pressure at break, lunch and after school.
No teachers have to make phone calls to parents or carers regarding behaviour. The robust behaviour systems ensure teachers can get on with teaching.
The senior leadership team (SLT) are very visible and all staff ‘own’ their corridors. Staff and students know that they’ll never walk alone.
The SLT run break and lunch time duties every day so that behaviour in unstructured time does not affect the smooth running of lessons.
Staff do not need to do any lunch duties. If they want to do one, then we will pay them or pay for their lunch.
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