Manners lessons 'aid behaviour'
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A softly-softly approach to improving school behaviour can bring results,
government research suggests. A report on a pilot scheme in England has
found that teaching good manners and fair play can cut bad behaviour and
improve attendance.
The research, covering 250 primary schools, suggests there were also
academic benefits to the scheme.
Teachers were encouraged to promote good behaviour in all areas, not just
to focus on rules. For example in PE lessons, teachers were encouraged to
promote ideas about fair play and team work to children.
Researchers from London University's Institute of Education found that the
softly-softly approach had reduced poor behaviour and improved attendance.
It also led to improved performance in national curriculum English and maths
tests for 11-year-olds.
The pilot scheme, involving 25 local education authorities, ran from 2003 to
2005. It was designed to improve attendance and behaviour in primary schools.
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Teachers were given extra training in ways of encouraging good behaviour.
In some schools, children who had behaviour problems or were in danger of
being excluded were given attention in small groups or one to one.
Sometimes their parents were involved.
Some schools reported dramatic changes. One, in Portsmouth, said serious
playground incidents dropped from 15 to none in the first year of the pilot
scheme.
In Southend in Essex, most schools reported lower levels of exclusions and
better figures on attendance.
Last autumn, a behaviour task force called for schools to be given stronger
legal rights to restrain pupils and to punish badly behaved children.
The group, led by Sir Alan Steer, also called for greater use of parenting
contracts and orders, compulsory parental supervision of excluded pupils
and a national charter of rights and responsibilities for teachers, pupils
and parents.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4743460.stm
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