Education - behaviour development
Behaviour Management Development Team (
BMDT
)
We work with schools to enhance their capacity to manage the
social, emotional and behavioural needs of all their pupils to
achieve “excellence for everyone”. We support a number of
initiatives that improve outcomes for pupils which also have a
range of training including:
- Rights Respecting Schools
- Respectful touch programmes (Team Teach and Child to Child Peer
Massage)
- Webster Stratton Incredible Years
- Therapeutic Inclusion Rooms
- Pyramid Clubs
The team works to implement aspects of the primary and secondary
strategies that relate to behaviour and support agendas including
Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEALs), Healthy Schools,
extended schools and targeted group work in Learning Support Units.
In addition we link with a number of other areas such as anti
bullying, transition, prevention of exclusions, anti social
behaviour etc. and you will find some useful links opposite.
Educational Psychology
Work is carried out in partnership with individuals, groups of
children, teachers and other adults in schools and early years
settings to promote child development and learning. This can be at
an individual, systemic or organisational level. We also work with
parents/carers and families, other officers, health and social
services and other agencies.
An Educational Psychologist attends termly workload
planning meetings with the school’s Special Educational Needs
Coordinator and in some primary schools, the Head Teacher as well.
They plan and agree on the work that will be undertaken by the
Educational Psychologist in the forthcoming term. In cases where
individual children have been identified, parents will be informed
and their consent received.
Training and workshops are offered to staff in schools on
a range of topics. Examples of training that we can offer
include:
- Behaviour management
- Social communication difficulties
- Inclusive learning approaches
- Specific learning difficulties
- Precision teaching
- Developing social skills
- Self-esteem and emotional literacy
- Attentional difficulties
- Developing memory and organisation skills
- Stress management
- Bullying