It is generally acknowledged that teaching in sixth form colleges requires teachers to adopt different strategies for student behaviour in comparison to teaching in secondary schools. For example, taking a ‘light touch’ approach is the expectation for behaviour for learning. However, there are some signs that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed this - are there other approaches regarding behaviour we should be looking at post-16? Instead of behaviour management, should we become actively focused on developing learner behaviours due to the disruption that students have had to their learning over the past two years?
