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3. Ensure that the activities offer challenge – children have to think, there are extension activities
or a bank of additional practice activities for early finishers.

4. Acknowledge wanted behaviour and provide opportunities for children to make the right

choices.
5. Celebrate and model appropriate responses and actions.

6. Promote effective behaviour management that is positive and supports teaching and learning.
The purpose of behaviour management is to help children learn to choose to do what is right

because they want to, not because they fear punishment. Effective intervention is moderate,

neither very permissive nor very strict. The focus is on encouraging the children to make
good acceptable behaviour choices.

7. Encourage class leaders.

8. Consequences are not blanketed (punishing the entire class for one or two individuals’
transgression).

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9. Consequences should relate to the behaviour that is unacceptable and be in a context of the
age of the child and so the child can understand. Correct behaviours need to be explicit with
opportunities to practice so that they become routine.

Student Assistants - Roles and Responsibilities

As a teacher, building a positive and happy working relationship with colleagues is important.
this also includes the Student Assisstants. Their primary role is to look after and support the personal
needs of the children. However the SA may also:

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• Ensure safe behaviour at the tables and centres
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Refer any concerns to the teacher
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Focus on specific children that the teacher has identified as requiring more attention.
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The teacher will give the SA clear instructions and ensure that the SA understands what is
asked of her
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Play with children in centres to model success criteria
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Model play dough on how to roll, press, shape.

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• Fully participate in PE and Music
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They can remind children of the rules and redirect them.
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Assist the teacher to set up centres and tidy up.
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Children will begin to assume the tidy up role, with support.