How did the programme affect teachers’ and school leaders’ approach to behaviour?
The BIP helped schools and teachers change their approaches to the management of pupils’ behaviour to make them more strategic and integrated, including: • raising the profile of behaviour management and pastoral care in their school • adopting a more consistent and structured whole-school policy for dealing with poor or concerning behaviour • encouraging teachers to believe that they could change things for the better (improved general efficacy). School leaders and teachers began to give behaviour policies the same status as the national literacy and numeracy strategies. They designed and implemented more structured strategies for tackling poor behaviour, involving some or all of the following strands: • identifying the most important issues through a behaviour audit • adopting a pro-active and preventative approach involving parents, pupils, staff, governors and outside agencies • creating clear sets of rules with an emphasis on the positive which were displayed prominently • close m
