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Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs . SPECIAL EDUCATION SUPPORT SERVICE. building on ability. Seminar Outline. Why do some students with SEN display Challenging Behaviours?

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Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs

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  1. Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs SPECIAL EDUCATION SUPPORT SERVICE building on ability

  2. Seminar Outline • Why do some students with SEN display Challenging Behaviours? • Aim: To examine the reasons students display challenging behaviours and to reflect on our approaches to challenging behaviour and students with SEN • What can I as a teacher do about Challenging Behaviour? • Aim: To provide teachers with strategies for preventing and managing challenging behaviour Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  3. Why ? • Special Educational Needs – Our Students • Over flow - teachers and students • Communication and Behaviour Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  4. Why?Our Students • System Limitations • Continuums • Co morbidity • Biology • Language Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  5. Why? Over flow Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  6. Why?Communicative Intent of Behaviour I’m bored! I’m angry! I’m tired! I want to get out of this room! I want to annoy you! I like doing this! I’m frustrated! I can’t do this work! I’m lonely! I’m rebelling! Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  7. What can we do? Prevent :Predictability and Consistency • The classroom environment • The learning environment • Class Behaviour Agreement Manage: The Phases of an Incident Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  8. The Classroom Environment • Use of Space: Easy to navigate or too cluttered? Storage space? • Displays: Stimulating but not overwhelming? • Respect: For personal space / property / classroom? • Seating arrangements: Suitable for learning? • Quiet area: Independent study? • Noise: What’s acceptable level & when? • Light: Enough / too much? • Air / Heat: Enough / too much / control? • Safety: Equipment, storage, wires, etc. Question: What works for me with this class / this student? Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  9. The Learning Environment • Culture of learning? • Choice of learning? • Co-operative learning? • Work at an appropriate level? • Varied teaching approaches? • Different learning environments? • Focus on social and personal development? Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  10. Activity How do you deal with classroom disruption? Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

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  12. Towards a Class Behaviour Agreement • Basic principle: RIGHTS RESPONSIBILITIES RULES CONSEQUENCES SUPPORT Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  13. Four Fundamental Rules When setting up class rules, focus initially on basic rules. In our class we … Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  14. Most important  Implementation ESTABLISHMENT PHASE: School Code of Behaviour Class Behaviour Agreement Class Routines Organisation of Classroom CONSOLIDATION AND MAINTENANCE PHASE: Refer to what has been established Follow through on it Consciously address issues COHESION PHASE: Rules and routines understood and accepted – they become ‘the way we do things here’ Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  15. Class Routines What routines are in place for the following? • Addressing staff • Transitions • Lesson routine • Use of resources • Care of own property • Class interruptions • Waiting work / activity box • Out-of-class routines Class rules and routines must be explicitly taught Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  16. Teaching Routines and Rules: How? • Discuss and/or explain • Model appropriate behaviour • Plan positive consequences for following rules • Encourage and remind: ongoing reference to rules • Check for understanding: pupils explain in own words • Role-play: before or after • Manage it / implement it All ongoing Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  17. Phases of an Incident Peak 5 Acceleration / Escalation De-escalation 4 6 Agitation 3 INTERVENTION POSSIBLE AT ALL PHASES Trigger Recovery 2 7 1 Calm Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

  18. Review • Focus on the student, not the behaviour • Adapt the environment and your teaching (change the hole, not the peg) • Stay calm and be positive. Challenging Behaviour and Students with SEN

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