BBC News reports from the NASUWT conference Bad behaviour ‘wastes five weeks’. Research by the NASUWT shows anything between 20 minutes and two hours is being lost in lesson time every day because teachers have to spend so long at the start of classes getting pupils to settle down, chase up work that hasn’t been completed and intervene in arguments, disagreements and even fights that children bring into the classroom from outside.
The survey found that on average, secondary school teachers lose 50 minutes each day because of pupil misconduct. There were also problems with behaviour in primary school, with an estimated 16 full days lost each year because of misconduct. There was also evidence that teachers did not feel they had sufficient help, with 61% saying they did not have confidence that they would receive “swift support” with tackling disruptive pupils.
Government behaviour adviser Sir Alan Steer is due to deliver his review on behaviour in schools in England and the children’s secretary Ed Balls will respond to the recommendations of Sir Alan’s report in a speech at the conference on Wednesday, but he has already said that ” it is “unacceptable” for a pupil to disrupt the learning and teaching of an entire class. Pupils need to know that when certain boundaries are crossed they will have to bear the consequences” .
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[...] from yesterdays Blog, ‘Bad behaviour Wastes Time‘, which outlined in a Government report that up to 5 weeks of lesson time a year were lost [...]