Understanding and Supporting Behaviour

Overview

This unit prepares pre-service teachers to understand how children and young people display different behaviours within a learning environment and how to approach and negotiate these behaviours. Pre-service teachers are introduced to the major perspectives of understanding and supporting behaviour and explore historical and contemporary theories and how these relate to principles, policies and practices. They explore the role and practice of external agencies and professionals in supporting children, young people, teachers and families. Pre-service teachers will also be challenged to reflect upon their own belief system and how this relates to different contemporary approaches and models of behaviour management

Learning outcomes

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

• Factors that influence behaviour in the learning environment
• Principles, policies and practices for establishing a productive learning environment
• Frameworks and models for supporting and engaging diverse learners with diverse needs
• Explore how teaching models and practices affect learners sense of being, belonging and becoming
• Positive behaviour support principles and practice
• Classroom climate
• Restorative practice
• Behaviour management techniques
• Behaviour intervention versus preventative behaviour techniques
• External organisations and agencies working with families
• Considerations for rights of young people and ethic of care when working with diverse learners with diverse needs