PB4L:Positive Behaviour for learning Professional Development for Staff

Today for our Teacher Only Day we had Professional Development on PB4L (Positive Behaviour For Learning). It is a School-Wide initiative to enhance behaviour and learning.

It involves Series of 7 elements to assess behaviour  management in the School and look at areas that can be developed on. Its applies to all children.  The focus of the programme  is what is successful for students and developing on this.
Sub-systems: Evidence based, smallest effort.  It is for all students and all teachers and is a general approach for preventing problem behaviour. This programme is developed for you and your school.

PB4L aims to move from traditional discipline to school wide discipline and to enhance and create and effective school environment.

It identifies and teaches replacement skills and builds relationships. The programme has shown improvements in behaviour as well as achievement.

Does not exist of long lists of NO and NOT and DON'T.
It involves teaching  the children what to do and the skills on how to do it.  It teaches children about expectations as well as consistency of Language.

PB4L builds on:

1. Social skills
2. Natural context 
3. Behaviour examples. 

• Links to key competencies and values of the New Zealand Curriculum. 

• Use of school wide reinforcement for student behaviour. 
• Use of regular feedback through good data gathering.
• DEVELOP CONSISTENCY-Clearly define problem behaviours. 
• Minors and majors- Distinguishing the difference. 
• Data based decision making.
• From Primary to Precise-Primary being vague statements which leave us with more questions and answers.
• Developing online resources: TKI.

Creating a students based Matrix based on School values and what it looks like in certain environments.

I am really looking forward to this learning experience and implementation of this programme throughout the School wide environment. 

"PB4L helps to foster positive behaviour, strengthen relationships, and increase student well-being by creating caring, inclusive learning environments. Research2 shows that such environments have positive effects on children’s and students’ behaviour, resilience, learning, and achievement". (TKI website)

The PB4L programme helps to build and develop inclusive leaning environments that enable all children to:

• Participate 
• Engage 
• Achieve 
• Belong. 

Having an inclusive learning environment enables children to be able to express their needs and feelings and have a personal voice in positive ways.

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING: THREE TIERS OF SUPPORT 

(Image referenced from TKI website)