Angie Harrison, from Wolds Associate Research School, is the Research Programme Lead for Learning Behaviours at EEF, a SCITT Lead and Secondary School Leader based in the East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull.
Building consistent positive behavioural habits and routines is the bedrock for supporting pupils’ social, emotional and behavioural needs, but vital behavioural learning routines take time and patience to establish.
Time after time, behaviour strategies are perceived as simply tools to manage misbehaviour. So, what do we really mean by learning behaviours?
A learning behaviour can be thought of as a behaviour that is necessary in order for a [child] to learn effectively in the group setting of the classroom (Ellis and Todd, 2018).
