Improving Behaviour and Wellbeing in Primary Schools

ISBN-13: 9781032500737 / Twarda / 2024 / 192 str.

Opis

This accessible resource provides a vivid and practical guide to social and emotional learning and will help primary schools tackle and improve behaviour and wellbeing. The resources included in this book are fully illustrated with photographs from classrooms and draw upon a useful bank of downloadable resources and proformas. 

Spis treści

1. What works in improving behaviour and wellbeing

2. The action research project

3. Conker the chameleon: how we taught children about the Zones of Regulation at Drew Primary school

4. The upstairs and downstairs brain: learning about neuroscience at New City Primary

5. How we solved playground problems at Cubitt Town Primary

6. How we helped withdrawn children come out of their shells at Selwyn Primary

7. Creating calmer classrooms at Redriff Primary

8. Tackling football problems at lunch and breaktimes at Shaftesbury Primary

9. How we engaged children with learning at Portway Primary and Pinner Primary

10. Colour monsters and feelings wheels: emotional literacy at Carpenters’ Primary

11. Older children coaching younger buddies at School 21

12. Postscript

13. Resources

O autorze

Jean Gross has been a teacher, an educational psychologist, head of children’s services in a local authority, and a Visiting and Associate Fellow at three universities. She has written multiple books for Routledge, including Time to Talk (2018), Reaching the Unseen Children (2021), and Beating Bureaucracy in Special Educational Needs (2023).

Sarah Seleznyov is a Co-Headteacher of School 360 and Strategic Lead for Learning and Development at Big Education Trust.  She formerly worked at UCL Institute of Education and is the author of numerous articles and chapters on research approaches to teacher professional development.