BEHAVIOURAL MANAGEMENT POLICY

INTRODUCTION

The Behavioural Management Policy refers to a system of school-wide processes and
individualized instruction designed to maintain and encourage appropriate behaviour
and to prevent and decrease problem behaviour. It is a comprehensive system that
prevents as well as responds to problem behaviour and ties effective behavioural
support activities to the College mission and vision. It includes an action plan that
establishes staff, parent and learner responsibilities.

To make the system work, educators will need to respond to problems from an
instructional approach rather than from a punitive one, all school personnel and
parents must believe that instruction can improve behaviour, behavioural instruction is
part of teaching, personalising misbehaviour makes matters worse, and emotional
poise underlies discipline methods that work.

The system provides immediate feedback for positive behaviour and provides learners
with step-by-step instructions on how to follow the rules and the benefits thereof. Both
educators and learners are able to define consequences concretely.
The emphasis is on consistency – throughout the administrative building and across
classrooms. It is vital that the entire College staff adopt a uniform set of strategies that
will be uniformly implemented. Consistent and fair expectations for behavioural
instruction are a key to successful discipline plans; individuals should not vary the rules
and must be held accountable for doing so.

It is important to note that all educators have the authority, consistent with Board policy
and applicable law, to manage his or her classroom, discipline learners and refer any
problems they may deem necessary to the relevant authority for further appropriate
action.

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