A Team Approach to Behaviour Management: A Training Guide for Sencos Working With Teaching Assistants

The emphasis is on planning for a team approach to problem solving within the context of whole-school improvement. The book is split up into a series of units that are designed to develop awareness and understanding through shared training. Each unit offers suggestions for practical school-based follow-up work that the teaching assistant can undertake and provides materials to allow the teaching assistant to maintain a reflective log of their work to support their professional development. The authors:

• Place their material in the context of the increasingly managerial role SENCOs are undertaking with their teaching assistants
• Take into account the proposed development of the role of the teaching assistant
• Provide the SENCO with all training materials--worksheets, suggested aims and objectives, discussion topics, tasks, and activities

 

 

Chris Derrington and Barry Groom are both Senior Lecturers in SEN at University College Northampton and have worked as headteachers in schools for pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties.