L4 Behaviour in School Flashcards
Why is behaviour a big deal?
Positive behaviour is linked to good education
Calm safe and supportive environment
Behaviour can impact classroom - loss of learning time, self-harm, distress, violence, miss school
Why is behaviour challenging to define?
Emotional behaviour difficulties (EBD)
Social Emotional and Behaviour Difficulties (SEBD)
Social Emotional Mental Health difficulties (SEMH)
It is understood and perceived differently by different people
What is an EP’s involvement?
Difficult behaviour is an interplay of factors
Often have other needs, learning, communication, social and emotional
Special educational needs are high risk factor for exclusion
What are the levels of EP involvement ?
Individual
Group (like an 8 week intervention)
Whole Class (work with class teacher to make classroom more inclusive)
Systematic or whole school
What is the problem solving models that EP’s use?
Student raised as a concern
Assess them
Understand why
Intervention
Evaluate
What are the psychological approaches to behaviour?
Biological
Behaviourist - measurable behaviours from the environment
Cognitive - belief, attitudes, expectations
Social Learning - observational learning
Psychodynamic - unconscious conflicts in childhood
Humanistic - self-esteem
Ecosystemic - + and - interactions between teacher and students
Ecological
What is applied behavioural analysis?
Behavioural approach
controlled by the responses it receives
Antecedents make behaviour more or less likely to occur
Reinforcement
How does applied behaviour analysis link to behaviour in school?
Behaviour is learned
Pupils can learn acceptable and productive classroom behaviour
Changing the environment can create the condition for new behaviour to be learned
What is punishment in ABA?
ABA strategies can be successful without inclusion of punishment
Society tolerance for the punishment is decreasing
What is the suspension rate of students?
Those with an educational, health and care plan is 17.6 compared to 4.69
Permanent exclusion with EHC is 13 compared to 0.05 for those without
BAME have the highest rate of exclusion
What have psychologists found about ABA in good classroom management?
Tsoi + Yule 1976 - using break time as a reinforcer
Williams 2012 - ABA underpinnings and positive effects and reinforcements
Good classroom management includes classroom rules, positive expectations, praise
What are the criticisms of applied behaviour analysis?
Subjective leading to observer effects
Teacher and child may behave differently when observed
Difficulty to identify cause and effect
Costs, recourses and time
Ethical concerns
What is CBT?
Involve person’s interpretation of events
Link between thoughts feels and behaviours
Identify person’s faulty thinking
What are the cautions and considerations for CBT?
Measuring attributions have been difficult due to ecological validity
Eliciting cross-system attributions require skills and careful handling
What are the aims of the eco-systemic consultation?
Provide a punctuation point
Bring attributions to the surface
Acknowledge and use emotions to facilitate change
Resolve boundary tension
