Best Practice

Behaviour in the classroom

Behaviour Computing and STEM
Poor behaviour can hijack your teaching, especially in practical lessons such as science. Getting it right doesn’t have to be difficult. Becca Knowles offers her advice.

A key concern for many of teachers is making sure that they can secure good teaching by building positive relationships with pupils and ensuring good behaviour in their classes.

The disruption caused by the impact of low-level behaviour problems (as highlighted in Ofsted’s recent Below the Radar report) is a recurring theme that many teachers are all too aware of.

The YouGov survey run as part of the Ofsted research showed that pupils are potentially losing up to an hour of learning each day in schools because of this kind of disruption.

Despite this, the evidence is clear that behaviour in schools and generally in society is actually improving. The number of exclusions from schools has been falling year-on-year and crime figures among the young have also fallen over the last 10 years.

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