Hands On Support in Shropshire

There are a number of packages available for assisting the management of behaviour in schools, but the one used most widely in Shropshire is Sleuth from the School Software Company.  Written in Acces it provides a database solution for logging many aspects of poor and good behaviour so a macroanalysis can be made to show up issues which may not have been apparent if they were treated in isolation.

For instance, recording the time of the behaviour during a lesson can yield rich data thta can lead to a change in practice - if there is evidence of misbehaviour at the beginning of a lesson then perhaps there needs to be work on the way pupils come into the room, or work on starters.  Similarly, the place or time where behaviour is poor can be analysed.

I’ve worked with a group of PSHE co-ordinators who are implementing this in their schools, and I look forward to working in schools a lot more through HOS.

It’s a privilege to meet such lively and enthusiastic teachers as those I worked with today. It makes my job so much more enjoyable when teachers have already seen the value that ICT can bring to a learning experience, through new skills, new ways of working, immediate changes and revisions to work. Isn’t that what it’s all about, to make learning fulfilling and a process that is worthwhile to the learner? ICT isn’t the only answer, it’s just part of the contemporary mix of tools at a good teacher’s disposal so when I meet teachers who deny pupils the benefits that ICT might bring I get very disappointed. Happily though, the teachers I work with are always inspiring to their pupils and the vast majority are keen to adopt new ways of working if it means that their learners will have more opportunity to succeed.