Positive Behaviour for Learning - PB4L
Positive Behaviour for Learning is a school-wide initiative to help raise behaviour, improve children's well-being, and increase educational achievement.
By strengthening relationships and creating more positive home and school environments, we remove barriers to engagement and improve students' chances to achieve at school and beyond. PB4L is a long-term, systematic approach including whole-school change initiatives, targeted group programmes, and individual student support services.
At St Marcellin School, we have a team of teachers specifically assigned to developing PB4L strategies through the school. These include class-based lessons on behaviour skills, stickers and certificates to reinforce positive behaviours, public recognition in school assemblies, analysing behaviour data to help us spot trends and provide interventions, a school trust-based model for talking with students and whānau and termly celebrations for school houses.
Positive Behaviour for Learning is a school-wide initiative to help raise behaviour, improve children's well-being, and increase educational achievement.
By strengthening relationships and creating more positive home and school environments, we remove barriers to engagement and improve students' chances to achieve at school and beyond. PB4L is a long-term, systematic approach including whole-school change initiatives, targeted group programmes, and individual student support services.
At St Marcellin School, we have a team of teachers specifically assigned to developing PB4L strategies through the school. These include class-based lessons on behaviour skills, stickers and certificates to reinforce positive behaviours, public recognition in school assemblies, analysing behaviour data to help us spot trends and provide interventions, a school trust-based model for talking with students and whānau and termly celebrations for school houses.
Positive Behaviour for learning is bringing the whole school together to focus on creating a positive school culture, where students feel safe, so that they can focus on their learning and achievement.
PB4L-SW means that teachers, students and the school community will work together teaching appropriate behaviour and learning school expectations so students know exactly what is expected of them.
Students who take responsibility to behave positively and follow the School Expectations, will be recognised and rewarded in a variety of ways.
What is PB4L?
The School-Wide framework Positive Behaviour for Learning School Wide (PB4LSW) is a long term approach that supports us to create a culture where positive behaviour and learning thrive. Students are taught in very specific terms what behaviours are expected of them. There is a consistent response to these behaviours across the school. The framework has been adopted the Positive Behavioural Interventions and Support (PBIS) framework from the United States.
The Principles Behind PB4L..
Positive Behaviour for Learning believes:
Positive behaviour can be learnt and difficult and disruptive behaviour can be unlearnt.
Individual children are not a 'problem' - we need to change the environment around them to support positive behaviour.
Punishing and isolating children doesn't bring about long-term and sustainable changes in behaviour.
We need to concentrate on a small number of evidence-based programmes and frameworks that we know work.
There are no quick fixes. Behaviour change takes time.
The Difference PB4L Will Make..
Children and young people will be more engaged and will achieve at school.
Teachers and leaders will spend more time teaching and less stressed.
Educators will keep more children and young people at school, will feel confident and will feel supported in addressing behaviour problems.
Parents and whanau will have more positive relationships with their children and home will be more positive and harmonious.
School leaders and Boards will celebrate the learning and achievement of all their students.