SWPBS - Behaviour Matrix Focus Term 3

School Wide Positive Behaviour Support – Behaviour Matrix Focus

This term, our School Wide Positive Behaviour Support Team is focusing on respect across our school community through our Student Matrix descriptor:

‘I demonstrate respectful behaviour by adhering to classroom rules and expectations’.

During this term, we will be focusing on teaching students this aspect of respectful behaviour.

Having a calm, predictable, and orderly learning environment is a precursor to improved student connectedness and learning in classrooms. At Staughton, teachers make classroom expectations and routines clear for students, particularly at the beginning of each semester and will acknowledge and reward the many students meeting expectations with our merit tickets.

Research has shown many benefits to having clear rules and expectations including:

• Students feeling more connected in a predictable environment where they understand what is going to happen and why.
• A greater clarity for students about what they are expected to do leads to more opportunity for students to become actively involved in their learning.

Respected/respectful people engage in respectful interactions in which respectful students can blossom.