For most teachers a common concern is the drip, drip, drip of low-level behavioural problems, with 46 per cent of secondary school teachers we interviewed for a YouGov survey last year stating that they had witnessed worsening behaviour over the last five years.
These are the low-level behaviours that prevent effective learning, cause untold stress to teachers and pupils alike, and if remaining unchecked can escalate to more serious incidents of verbal and violent abuse in the classroom.
In reality, it is very hard to say whether low-level behaviour is genuinely any worse than it used to be or whether we are just more adept at recognising it.
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