How Do Members Of Staff Demonstrate Expected Behaviour

Members of teaching staff demonstrate expected behaviour in many ways throughout school. Initially the presentation and personality of the members of staff is a primary method of setting a good example. Teachers and teaching assistants should dress appropriately for work, wearing smart clothing yet clothes that can cope with the demands of the working day (e.g. ties that clip on/off to prevent strangulation if pulled, clothing that isn’t too tight/restrictive). Teachers and TA’s should speak to other members of staff, young people and children in an appropriate manner, as well as using appropriate tone, volume, spoken words and body language. Members of staff should be setting examples for children to follow, as you are the professionals in which the children and young people look up to, and look for, for guidance and support through their school lives. Ultimately children learn by example so members of staff can input expected behaviours into the children’s and young people’s learning experiences by behaving as you would expect others to behave.
If all children/young people are taught from the beginning what is expected of them whilst in school, and with visual reminders of ‘class rules’ in their workplaces or classrooms then it is easy for members of staff to reinforce what is expected of them during school. Verbal reminders will also be required whilst around the school. An example of this would be to remind students to “not run in the corridors, we don’t run in the corridors do