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Inclusive Behaviour Strategies For Physically Disrupt Individual Students

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Whilst reflecting on my first teaching placement, I thought about the problems I had come across, how these had affected me as a practitioner and how I adapted my teaching in reflection of these. Throughout my placement, I felt it was necessary to implement behaviour strategies for the class as a whole, to ensure they were aware of my behaviour expectations throughout all lessons. MacLure and Jones (2009) found that teachers usually want to develop cohesive classes where everyone knows and responds to the formal and informal rules. Through reflection, I now realise I very much had this view to begin with. However, a uniform behavioural management strategy does not have the same impact on all children. This issue made me question, what can I do to engage physically disruptive learners with SEN, during lessons, and how can I use specific behaviour strategies to motivate individual children? This curiosity is the source of this essay: I wanted to understand the root cause for physically disruptive children in the classroom, how behaviour can be a result of their special educational need and …show more content…

McGee (2011, p.1) described adaptive teaching as: ‘…teaching that seeks to reach all students regardless of their level of learning or their socioeconomic backgrounds. The goal of adaptive teaching is to instruct each student upon his/her individual needs’. These two definitions of adaptive and inclusive teaching are found in recent research. However, there have been origins of the type of teaching traced back to 1925 (Westwood, 2013). Understanding what this type of teaching is will enable me to embed this into my teaching practice to provide for all needs in the

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