Improving Behaviour and Wellbeing in Primary Schools - Harnessing Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom and Beyond

This accessible resource provides a vivid and practical guide to social and emotional learning and will help primary schools tackle and improve behaviour and wellbeing. The resources included in this book are fully illustrated with photographs from classrooms and draw upon a useful bank of downloadable resources and proformas.

List of contents

1. What works in improving behaviour and wellbeing2. The action research project

3. Conker the chameleon: how we taught children about the Zones of Regulation at Drew Primary school4. The upstairs and downstairs brain: learning about neuroscience at New City Primary5. How we solved playground problems at Cubitt Town Primary

6. How we helped withdrawn children come out of their shells at Selwyn Primary

7. Creating calmer classrooms at Redriff Primary

8. Tackling football problems at lunch and breaktimes at Shaftesbury Primary

9. How we engaged children with learning at Portway Primary and Pinner Primary10. Colour monsters and feelings wheels: emotional literacy at Carpenters’ Primary

11. Older children coaching younger buddies at School 2112. Postscript13. Resources

About the author

Jean Gross has been a teacher, an educational psychologist, head of children’s services in a local authority and a Visiting and Associate Fellow at three universities. She has written multiple books for Routledge, including Time to Talk (2018), Reaching the Unseen Children (2021) and Beating Bureaucracy in Special Educational Needs (2023).
Sarah Seleznyov is a Co-Headteacher of School 360 and Strategic Lead for Learning and Development at Big Education Trust. She formerly worked at UCL Institute of Education and is the author of numerous articles and chapters on research approaches to teacher professional development.

Summary

This accessible resource provides a vivid and practical guide to social and emotional learning and will help primary schools tackle and improve behaviour and wellbeing. The resources included in this book are fully illustrated with photographs from classrooms and draw upon a useful bank of downloadable resources and proformas.

Product details

• Authors: Jean (Early Intervention Foundation Gross
• Assisted by: Jean Gross (Editor), Gross Jean (Editor), Sarah Seleznyov (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2024
• EAN: 9781032500737
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3250073-7
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Special Education / General, EDUCATION / Counseling / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Teaching skills & techniques, Primary & middle schools, Education: care & counselling of students, Primary and middle schools, Counselling and care of students, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies