Halfway house on discipline
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Halfway house on discipline
https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/halfway-house-discipline
While national strategies may be derided in schools, there is no doubt that the action plan from the Better Behaviour-Better Learning task group has acted as a catalyst for many developments, such as “time out” for pupils and pupil support bases which HMIE believes are being more rigorously and intelligently used than the “sin bins” of the past.
It is, of course, all very well having fine strategies in place to tackle indiscipline, but these must also feed into improved learning and achievement for pupils, which will be the focus of the next HMIE report on discipline. But, as the head of pupil support at Edinburgh’s Trinity Academy put it so succinctly, the nub of the issue is the age-old one of the quality in the relationship between teacher and pupil.
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