Tips for preventing challenging behaviour in your school

The barrier for a lot teachers when they have a pupil with consistent challenging behaviour,

is that they feel like they have tried everything, yet the child doesn’t seem to consistently respond.

Your team feel they are making the best of a hard situation, they start to make small shifts with 121 support where possible, then 'boom!' back to square one...

It is the energy of the staff member facilitating the situation that affects the outcome.

If the person helping is not calm and regulated they are likely to add to the stress.

When this happens it basically adds to the person having the overwhelms stress. The child's learning centre in the brain shuts down, they can lose their ability to hear, absorb, communicate or make considered choices.

This means that the outburst often gets bigger and bigger or the child goes silent, freezes and won’t clock eyes with you.

The teacher feels frustrated, sad or useless...

The child feels overwhelmed and no idea what to do...

Here are 5 ways that will increase stress (silent or lash out)

1. Threats- “if you don’t stop you will lose...”

2. Guilt inducing- “I can’t believe you did this again, what will your mum say”

3. Shame- "you should be embarrassed that you did that”

4. Not enough- “There is no reason for you to do this”

If you are reading this and you can recognise some of these phrases being used (without understanding the true implication) in your school or organisation and would like to know what to say instead, then please drop us an email and we will send you a list.

For those who know they are ready to make a change now, we have our proven Pit Stop Education Program that will equip all of your team to learn and apply, with immediate effect, ways to connect with pupils who struggle in school.

Applications open now for our new cohort.

Together we can all achieve.

Love Megs and Bry x