In 2012, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers surveyed 814 UK teaching staff and found that 87 per cent of them were regularly forced to deal with poor attention. A lack of respect was reported by 85 per cent and 63 per cent suffered verbal abuse.
Most schools have behaviour policies in place, some forward-thinking schools employ strategies like Geoff James’s solution-focused approach. So why then, are bad behaviours still on the rise?
As a speech and language therapist I frequently see pupils who use poor behaviour as a strategy to avoid staff and peers detecting their underlying difficulties with language and literacy.
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