A presentation given at Middlesex University's Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2016: "Unpacking Teaching Excellence

1. Behaviour Journals (ppt)

2. Introduction

3. Entry Examples
They are also made aware of the following four ideas to consider whilst they
are reflecting and writing:
the biggest reward is the adult
all behaviour is about solving problems
the only behaviour you can control is your own
practice should be underpinned by good theory.

4. 1. You cannot change behaviour overnight.
2. Children cannot develop behaviours that support their learning on their
own.
3. There are many children in the classroom with varied learning behaviours.
4. What you do should be based on real known theories that underpin
learning.
5. There are some behaviours that you see repeated and that you respond to
in the same way.
6. Positive behavioural approaches are about training up learning behaviours
you want.
7. Always use learning as a basis for managing behaviour and language.
8. Never change a behavioural programme before a child and the adult have
understood how it works, used it consistently, accepted pitfalls, and
persisted.
9. Changing a behaviour programme in the first instant of refusal means that
the child and adult revert to the behaviours that they were safe with in the
first place however inappropriate.
10. A programme depends on the consistent behaviour of the adult.

5. Comments about the
Behaviour Journals

6. Exit Survey Comments

7. Use of Behaviour Journal for Child Study

8. Examples of Dialogues

9. For Ramus, (1515-1572) the main reason for reforming the curriculum was
related to the usefulness of education: he accepted that the principles of every
art should be based on experience and observation.
• The process of acquiring knowledge should consist of
four steps, as we can see in the following example. In
the first place, we feel intoxicated. Secondly, we realize
by means of observation that this feeling may have been
induced by wine, since we have consumed a great deal
of it. But is there actually a causal connection between
our consumption of wine and our feeling of
drunkenness? To establish certain knowledge, it is
necessary, thirdly, to examine by means of induction the
effects of drinking wine, so that we can conclude that the
wine is genuinely the cause of our drunkenness.
Fourthly, we can by means of experience use our
knowledge to avoid getting drunk next time.

10. Discussion points
• How does a specific behaviour journal
differ from the journal more commonly
used for general ideas and activities?
• Can the cost in terms of time for
assessment of the journals be justified?
• How do the trainees react through the
year to the constant requirement of the
behaviour journal?