Restorative Practice

Teacher Only Day Session - 8th March 2019



Punitive Responses to Behaviour;
What rule has been broken?
Who is to blame?
What's the punishment going to be?

Restorative Responses to Behaviour;
What happened?
Who has been affected? How?
What needs to be done to put things right?

Some students are not use to working with, the might be experienced in either 'to' or 'for' and might have difficulty thinking for themselves or having someone ask for their ideas. These students need to be scaffolded through the process and taught the skills.


Ideas I can use;
TUMS - Touch, Use student's name, Make eye contact, Smile
2x10 - 2 minutes of time for 10 days interacting positively with the student
Be Firm, Be Fair, Be Brief, Be Gone

Ask vs Tell
Use open ended questions - What? Who? How? When and Where (not Why?)
Be curious
Let them explain and do all the work
eg. Tell me what just happened.
What do we need to have a conversation about?

Observe to Learn:

Tell the story
Explore the harm
Repair the harm
Reach an agreement
Plan the follow-up

Setting up for 2019

Preparation for 2019

10/02/19  This year my plan is to be more organised (I wrote this all down a week ago but it has disappeared, so not off to a great start). I am going to use the Eisenhower Matrix - https://www.eisenhower.me/eisenhower-matrix/  to help me do this so I can start working on tasks so that I am not always racing to catch up. Dates for important meetings will be organised at the start of the term and tasks broken down.

I will jot down tasks for a week and decide upon their category and go from there.The first week will be spent making dates for meetings; pastoral care meetings. TA meetings, International Meetings etc

Update - 17/02/19 I have put in place the pastoral care meeting times for the year and informed everyone, we have had one TA meeting but I need to schedule the second one this week, I am working on the date for the International Meeting.

ESOL Preparation - 17/02/19

This year I am going to insure that the students are more involved in the planning and each session we will have a LI and we will review it at the end. This week when I am assessing the students I will also be gathering data on what they want to learn. If there are similarities this might be what I base my groups around. My goal this week is to get as much assessment done as possible. The last two weeks have been solely SENCO based (although it has included a small amount of International paperwork) and as my hours are made up of 5 hours SENCO and 10 hours ESOL I need to be spending more time on ESOL this week for sure.