Developing Positive Classroom Environments

List of tables and figures

Contributors

Preface

Part A: The Positive Behaviour Support framework and middle-years learners

1. Positive Behaviour Support: An overview of the three-tiered framework

2. Middle-years learners: Supporting the development of lifelong learners

3. Brain development in adolescence

4. The authentic inclusion of child and adolescent voices in educational provision

5. Evidence-based PBS practices: Encouraging engagement and establishing clear behavioural expectations

6. Coping with transition: Supporting the change from primary to secondary school

Part B: Tier 1-Universal interventions: Key elements of PBS and classroom practice

7. Tier 1: Universal interventions that support PBS and classroom practice

8. Developing and supporting teacher resilience: A foundation of PBS

9. Building relationships: Strategies to increase collaboration, cooperation and participation

10. Accessing language in the classroom: Critical considerations for implementing positive behaviour strategies in the classroom

11. Promoting school connectedness, promoting a sense of belonging

12. Self-regulation: Supporting social and emotional wellbeing and academic learning

13. PBS in practice: A teacher's perspective

Part C: Tiers 2 and 3-Targeted group interventions and intensive individual interventions

14. Tiers 2 and 3: Strategies to support more challenging behaviours in middle-years learners

15. Promoting good mental health and supporting social and emotional wellbeing: Managing stress and anxiety, and supporting autonomy and resilience in middle-years learners

16. What to do about bullying in middle-years learners

Part D: Catering for diversity as part of a PBS approach

17. A Tier 3 approach to complex childhood trauma

18. Inclusion in the middle years: Supporting ethnic and cultural diversity

19. Students on the autism spectrum: Influences on the middle-years learner

20. ICT in adolescence: Using technology to re-engage vulnerable students
Acknowledgements

Index