What do positive learning behaviours look like and how can teachers cultivate this? If you have not heard the term behaviour for learning before, fear not! We explain all in this latest episode.
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Brighter Thinking Pod – Ep 30: Behaviour for Learning
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why is behaviour for learning important? What separates it from behaviour management?
- What is the behaviour for learning conceptual framework? What are the key features of the framework and how did the framework come about in the first place?
- How can teachers understand learners’ relationships with the curriculum to better support them in the classroom?
- How can teachers understand learners’ relationships with others to better support them in the classroom?
- What about the relationship with self? Is this more important than curriculum and others?
- What do positive learning behaviours look like and how can teachers cultivate this?
- To what extent is behaviour for learning universal and relevant far beyond our school days?
- What is a first, easy step to promoting positive behaviours for learning in the classroom?
- What can teachers put into practice straight away when they greet their students tomorrow morning?
Show notes
Cambridge Assessment International Education
Behaviour for Learning: Promoting Positive Relationships in the Classroom, by Simon Ellis, Janet Tod
Cambridge Assessment International Education – Education Brief: Learner Wellbeing
Cambridge Assessment International Education – Education Brief: Promoting a Positive School Climate
Host and guests
Laura Kahwati – Host
Laura is the Education Manager for Thought Leadership at Cambridge International Education. Prior to starting her current role in January 2023, Laura worked as a secondary school English teacher for 16 years in Outstanding UK-based state schools. She has also been a teacher of Drama and Theatre Studies and later, Head of Media Studies. Laura has a Master of Teaching from UCL and a Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge.
Dr Simon Ellis
Dr Simon Ellis works as a freelance educational consultant providing training and consultancy support to schools and other settings on behaviour for learning.
Prior to this he was a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University where he taught on the Master’s in Education programme and the National Award for Special Educational Needs Coordination course.
He also contributed regularly to a range of the university’s teacher education programmes and his doctoral thesis focused on the development of beginning teachers’ thinking and practice in relation to pupil behaviour.
Simon has co-authored three books on Behaviour for Learning in 2009, 2015 and 2018. He has previously worked as a Key Stage 3 National Strategy Behaviour and Attendance Consultant and a Local Authority Behaviour Support Service specialist teacher and manager. He originally trained and taught as a primary teacher and has experience of working as a Special Educational Needs coordinator.
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