School wide positive behaviour for Learning (PBL)
At Port
Douglas State School, we have embedded PBL as our framework for encouraging
appropriate interactions and behaviour. The implementation of SWPBL has six
main features:
1. Team formation
– our SWPBL leadership team is a representative group composed of teaching
staff, teacher aides, administrators and parents.
2. Defined
expectations– we have four school rules: Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible
and Be a Learner. From these expectations, we have developed the 'matrix of
expectations' to guide our thinking around what behaviours we want our students
to demonstrate. Click here to view our Student Code of Conduct.
3. Teaching
expected behaviours – this is one of our most important tasks – how to teach
the behaviours we have identified in the matrix of expectations in a way that
is easily implemented, and with everyone using a common language. To do this,
we make use of a lesson schedule, posters and power point lessons. We
explicitly teach school-wide routines, such as the eating time routine,
responsible play and moving around the school.
4. Acknowledging
positive behaviour – research continues to show that the most effective way to
change a student’s behaviour is to ‘catch’ them doing the right thing and give
them immediate positive feedback. Part of our task is to help develop enough
strategies to support a healthy rate of positive feedback for all students,
whether in the form of verbal praise or more tangible awards such as the Dojo Points (which accumulate to achieve classroom rewards each week) and/or 'Student
of the Week' certificates.
5. Discouraging
inappropriate behaviour - we respond to inappropriate behaviour using ‘least
intrusive’ strategies. At Port Douglas State School we use the ‘minor and major
behaviour’ documentation to provide a consistent guide of what to do and say in
regard to minor and major behaviours.
6. Use of
data – OneSchool provides a ready source of information regarding what
behaviours are occurring across the school. This allows us to make decisions
and design interventions that are relevant and appropriate.
More information about PBL and how it works can be found here.
