WHAT TO TARGET Learning environment Assessment Behaviour Curriculum Planning Causing learning Teacher as a person Teacher asa colleagueTHE RULES PERSPECTIVE STATED RULES A teacher's or the school’s wish-list: either said in class, said in assembly, or written in handbooks, prospectuses or posters on the wall. REAL RULES (THE TRUE CODE OF BEHAVIOUR) The culture of the school can be thought of as the collection of all the real rules, or patterns of behaviour - helpful or unhelpful - that exist in a school. This includes: © the whole school patterns of behaviour * patterns of behaviour that occur in classes with individual teachers. THE UNIVERSAL CODE The set of behaviour expectations that most teachers haveFULL ATTENTION VERSUS WORKING It is useful to consider a class operating in one of two states: © The Full Attention state, or © The Working State. Full Attention The formal time in a class. Everyone in the class is supposed to be focused on the one spot - usually the teacher, but it can be another student or even a video. A class is said to be in the Full Attention state if the teacher expects the students to be focused onto one spot. Full attention is a one-dimensional state. Getting rid of distracting noise - talk and fidget - is the only issue from a behaviour point of view. Working Anything that is not full attention. This can include students: * working quietly at their desks * engaged in a loud discussion in groups * working on projects in the workshop mucking around doing nothing © etc Working is a two-dimensional state Noise is a factor, but the amount of work that is occurring is more important. Swapping between the two states is known as a Transition, Many teachers have difficulty successfully swapping between the two states and operate in a kind of overlap state.