Episode description
Today’s discussion is prompted by the Bill Rogers interview that recently appeared in the TES titled: ‘Bill Rogers: Where we are going wrong on behaviour’.
Matt and Femi discuss:
- The problem of COVID and re-victimising students
- Teacher’s being inclined to appease students rather than lead on behaviour.
- If you’re not in control it’s not a safe environment
- Relationships and how to respond and relate to students
- How do things change when you know the causative pathology for the a student’s antisocial behaviour
- Curriculum for behaviour, and the problem of differing conceptions of what teachers mean by poor behaviour
- Restorative conversations
- The power of behaviour routines (and the risk that they become performative)
- And the unhelpful contributions of commentators who do not understand schools and classrooms