Dr Christine Richmond

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• Redbank School is located behind Westmead
  Hospital and is
• part of a combined DET and Dept of Health
  facility for
• the treatment of children and adolescents with
  emotional,
• behavioural or psychiatric difficulties.

• Students attend Redbank School for periods
  ranging from
• one week to two terms.

• They have a maximum enrolment of 48 students.

• Redbank has three units
• the Child and Family Unit (K- Year 6)
• the Adolescent and Family Unit (Years 7-12)
• the Acute Adolescent Unit (a locked ward for
  adolescents with a
• severe psychiatric illness)

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Professor Lori Newcomer

• Research Professor at the University of
  Missouri
• 35 years experience in education
• Provides training across USA, Canada
  Australia on
• school-wide systems of Positive Behaviour
  Support

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Teaching can be tough and full of the unexpected!
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Behaviour Reduction Strategies

• Apply consistency
• Use the power of proximity
• Make direct eye contact
• Use a soft voice
• Be firm and anger-free
• Link the consequences to the
• expected behaviours
• Never accept excuses or bargaining

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Avoid the Negative Trap

• Criticism
• Arguing
• Ridicule
• Sarcasm
• Despair and pleading
• Threats
• Physical force

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Dr Christine Richmond

• Experienced teacher of students with
• severe behaviour challenges
• Appointed as a National Travelling Scholar
• in 2007 by the Australian Council for
• Educational Leaders
• Held of academic positions at UNE and
• Bond University
• Now, in private practice where she works
• with school communities in Australia and NZ
• Author of

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Maximise your energy

• Look after yourself
• Exercise
• Sleep
• Well-balanced diet
• Limit alcohol
• Get the big picture perspective

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Reframe difficulties

• See yourself as a coach of learning
• See the class as a learning team
• Not successful. YET! Its about to change.
• Develop key phrases with the class
• Identify strengths in individual students

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Language shifts

• From To

noisy
enthusiastic
chaotic
energetic
They keep me on my toes.
horrible
awful
awesome
difficult
Yes, but what isnt?
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Correction Strategies

• Mostly use body language cues
• Eye contact ? I see you
• Smile ? I like you
• Stand side by side ? proximity (effective when
  student is off task)
• Touch (appropriate) ? e.g. hand shake

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2. Frequently use pre-planned verbal scripts
For example, ask a disruptive student

• What are you doing?

2.What should you be doing?
3. Do you need help to do it?
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3. Sparingly apply consequences
Time out ?brief
Detention ? catch-up work
Sanction ? temporary loss of privileges
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4. Always follow through

• More easily said than done, however, essential
  to build credibility and to establish the
  message,

I mean what I say.
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Behaviour Management5 Classic Mistakes
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1. Taking student behaviour personally
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2. Reacting emotionally rather than responding
intelligently

• Know your own temperament develop a
• strategy to calm yourself e.g. 3 deep breaths.

• Live by the rule, if in doubt wait it out.

Seek support from your colleagues.
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3. Playing power games

• Inevitably you will find yourself in the middle
  of
• a power struggle with a student from time to
  time.
• How to extricate yourself?

• Recognise when you are playing.

• Stay calm and say (either out loud or to
  yourself), Im not playing that game!.

• Move to somewhere else in the room and redirect
  the focus.

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4. Asking students why they continually misbehave

• This will not help! Instead

• Seek support from colleagues

• Work as a team

• Never give up

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5. Blaming parents, television, society, or
planet alignment

• Some parents, for many reasons, manage
• their children poorly. However, rather than
• laying blame, attempt to understand.

By teaching well you will positively create
change in more lives than you will ever know.
Christine Richmond
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