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Children who struggle with their behaviour, just like those who struggle with an academic task such as learning to read or doing mathematical calculations, need extra, structured, support. This resource helps educational staff to teach young people to improve their behaviour without resorting to punishment or to strategies based on lost learning opportunities. The ready-to-use worksheets encourage pupils to: understand their own behaviour; see others point of view; think about how the future might look; consider the range of choices to action; be aware of potential help and pitfalls; plan a course of action; check and review their progress. These will help children to take responsibility for their actions — both those that get them in trouble and those that they can take to change their behaviour for the better. For this new edition, the author has revised and expanded the whole book, and added 16 brand new worksheets. It is ideal for anyone working with pupils experiencing difficulty in school and can be used in group or individual work settings.
Helping Youngsters to Understand their own Behaviour
Helping Youngsters to Understand their own Behaviour
‘The More you Tramp on a Cow Pat the Bigger it Gets!’
In other words … don't make your problems worse than they already are.
What do you do that makes your problems worse? Perhaps you answer back or sigh loudly or use a sarcastic tone of voice.
If you stopped doing these things how do you think your teacher would feel?
How would you feel?
What would your friends think?
Wheel of Life
This chart will help you focus on 6 areas: perhaps 6 different lessons, 6 times of the day, 6 situations. Write the heading for each area in the shaded sections.
Now starting in the centre shade the bands according to how comfortable you feel ...