When the Adults Change, Everything Changes

Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour

De: Paul Dix

Narrado por: Paul Dix

In this abridged audiobook version of his best-selling title, Paul Dix talks you through the book’s hugely influential behavior management approach - an approach whereby expectations and boundaries are exemplified by people, not by a thousand rules that nobody can recall. The testing, watch out for and nuggets sections have been removed for this audiobook, but the indispensable advice on how to involve all staff in developing a whole school ethos built on kindness, empathy, and understanding remains. Suitable for teachers and school leaders - in any setting - who are looking to upgrade their approach to school behavior.

Contents include:

1. Visible consistency, visible kindness
2. The counterintuitive classroom
3. Deliberate botheredness
4. Certainty in adult behaviour
5. Keystone classroom routines
6. Universal microscripts: flipping the script
7. Punishment addiction, humiliation hangover
8. Restore, redraw, repair
9. Some children follow rules, some follow people
10. Your behaviour policy sucks!
11. The 30 day magic

©2017 Paul Dix (P)2019 Paul Dix

loved it

a real eye opener that has made me question my own style and want to be a better teacher

Good—wish more examples were given.

Great book focused on making sure adults in school are all on the same page, consistent, and focused on recognizing the GOOD behavior and holding clear expectations with restorative practices. I have a great understanding of restorative practices so the book made perfect sense to me and gave me a few ideas to improve/expand upon what we are already doing in our school—however, the author talks about using scripts to deal with behavior (providing these to adults so they have something to use to respond when their feeling angry/frustrated/etc.). I wish examples would have been provided or some kind of pdf/worksheet to draft/frame these for staff. We are a PBIS school and the book talks about how rewards are basically stupid and do not work—I think there is some fun to rewards and while they are not the ONLY thing, there is some place for school wide systems, such as class Dojo, having a student store/classroom rewards or purchase (with positive behavior points) etc. Overall, it was a good listen… and I had a few solid take-aways.

Good book

Nice ideas, not sure how easy it is to put them into practice though. It is still worth.