Reflection

Reflection may seem unimportant, but it is a crucial part of improving students behaviour. This requires you to reflect upon your own practices and the student to reflect upon their actions. Reflection can help teachers to look back on their strategies and how they employed them to help them refine their practices. Reflection can help students to recognise what triggered their behaviours and what has helped them to manage those behaviours. 

Reflection can take many forms. It can involve discussions, journal writing, charts etc. 


Discussions
For teachers: discussing ideas, solutions and looking back on actions with colleagues or other child care 
                        professionals. This can be a casual discussion or it can be formal, such as an arranged meeting each
                        week.   

For students: discussing how and why behaviours occurred and what they can do to manage those behaviours. This 
                      can be a casual discussion with a teacher, family member, guidance officer etc after an incident has  
                      occurred. It can also be a formal discussion that takes place each week, month etc.  


Journal Writing
For teachers: writing exactly what happened, what strategies you employed, how well you think it went, what you 
                        think you could do to improve the situation in future. 

For students: writing how and why they behaved that way, whether they think they managed it well and what they 
                        could do to manage their behaviour better in the future.


Charts
For students: this can be used to keep a record of students behaviour, therefore, helping the student to look back and 
                        reflect on their actions and behaviours.

For example:
http://polkdhsd7.sharpschool.com/staff_directory/p_b_s_behavior_intervention/tier_1_interventions/reflection_sheets/

http://www.kidpointz.com/printable-charts/behavior-charts/

http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/reward_charts.html