Find out how outstanding teachers and outstanding schools do more than just “manage” behaviour.
Future Behaviour delivers culture-shifting behaviour management training for teachers, support staff and whole schools. It is training that has a massive impact upon every aspect of school life. The Future Behaviour Plan takes all the strategies employed by the best practitioners, breaks them down into easily transferable chunks and delivers them to you.
With it's emphasis on consistency, fairness and simplicity, the Future Behaviour Plan ensures improved classroom behaviour and reduced stress for teachers, TAs and lunchtime supervisors.
How does it work?
The Future Behaviour Plan is about giving children choices. The emphasis is always on ensuring pupils fully understand how to be successful and what will happen if they make the right and the wrong choices. Half the battle is ensuring we give clear and unambiguous instructions but this is not as easy as it sounds. We need to be specific and there’s a knack to it. That’s why we need a plan.
The Future Behaviour Plan gives a new language to use when giving instructions and shows how your choice of language is the key to successful behaviour management. It provides the tools to formulate your own system for helping all students to follow instructions. The Plan encourages them in 2 essential ways:
Rewards with resentment
Have you ever noticed how, in some schools, the "naughty" kids get the most rewards? The Future Behaviour Plan encourages pupils by recognising great choices and by using specific strategies to get the whole class or school to support challenging pupils in making these great choices. We damage relationships with our pupils when we don’t reward fairly and we discourage them from supporting their peers. The Future Behaviour Plan helps you to implement a system where everyone wins.
Structured consequences
With small, reasonable, stepped and consistently delivered consequences, everyone will know where they stand. The worst position a teacher can be in, is to be confronted with behaviour and not know what the next step should be. Your actions need to be premeditated. With the Future Behaviour Plan's set of structured and small consequences, you'll always know your next steps and because they're small, they're easy to implement. The fact is, it’s not the severity of the consequence that’s effective, it’s the consistency of delivery.
Involvement of senior leaders and parents is a key part of any behaviour management system. The plan allows staff a clear understanding of when it’s appropriate to involve senior leaders and parents. Conversely, senior leaders and parents will be aware of just when they’ll become involved.
Language of Consistency
Using 'warnings or 'strikes' is the easy bit. Being clear and unambiguous with your language is the hard part and without clear and unambiguous language the warnings or strikes just don’t work. Pupils need to know what is expected of them. It should be as clear a drawing a chalk line down the middle of the classroom and asking a class to stand on one side of it. For every instruction that is given, everyone should know who's making the right choice and who's not. With the Future Behaviour Plan, you’ll learn the language of consistency and you’ll never again hear the words- “that’s not fair” (and even if you do, you’ll be certain that it is!).
Wasted language
The Future Behaviour Plan helps staff to stop wasting their words:
“Why did you do that?”
“How many times have I told you?”
“I’m waiting!”
“It’s too noisy!”
We’ve all been guilty of this now and again but highly effective teachers are constantly reminding students about instructions, recognising those following instructions, or delivering consequences. If they are not doing one of these three things, then they are building relationships or teaching. Anything else is just wasting words.
(Of course, the Future Behaviour Plan is not suggesting that we don’t talk to children and young people about their behaviour. It just suggests we don’t talk to them about it just after they’ve made a bad choice- it just makes more sense).
Rules and relationships
There is a belief that building relationships with children can't be taught. This belief is correct; every adult who works with children builds relationships in different ways. What can be taught though, is the method for creating the best environment to build those relationships in. This is an environment where adults are confident that their instructions will be followed and have a clear plan when children choose not to follow them. It's an environment where children respect adults because they are treated with respect and that they know that fair and consistent recognition and consequences will be delivered. The aim is always cooperation- not compliance. The strategies to achieve this environment are all included in The Future Behaviour Plan.
If you want the most effective behaviour management plan available, you need The Future Behaviour Plan.
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Fran- Our Lady's RC Primary School
"Fresh and lively presentation- an enjoyable and informative day"
Anne, Austhopre Primary
"Very interesting and useful. Presented in a fun and clear way."
James, Swarcliffe Primary School
"A really inspiring, helpful day"
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