Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) is a system of school wide processes and individualised instruction designed to prevent and decrease problem behaviour and to maintain appropriate behaviour. This process facilitates the development of quality learning environments in which all students will feel safe, secure and can flourish as individuals. Attention is focused on creating and sustaining primary (school-wide), secondary (specialised) and tertiary (individual) systems of support that makes problem behaviour less effective, less efficient, and less relevant and desired behaviour more functional.
Features of PBL
- Focus on prevention of problem behaviours.
- Appropriate student behaviour is explicitly taught.
- Positive behaviour is rewarded and acknowledged.
- Ongoing collection of data supports identification of school needs and assists decision making.
- School discipline systems are regularly reviewed.
Blaxland East Public School has implemented PBL as an integral part of its welfare and discipline systems. PBL is a systems approach for establishing the social, cultural and behavioural supports needed for schools to be effective learning environments for all students. PBL is a whole school system as it promotes clearly defined and explicitly taught behaviour expectations. School communities work together to form an agreement about behavioural expectations and then explicitly teach those expectations to the students. A number of PBL lesson plans covering appropriate behaviour on various school settings have been included in the appendix of this document. Blaxland East has developed the following school Core Values, incorporating the DET core values and school motto:
Be Respectful
Excellence Always
Participate Aourageously
Serve Others
Our school Core Values highlight the student expected behaviours to provide safe, supportive and responsive learning environments for everyone. These expectations incorporate the DET Behaviour Code and Core Values. Our school community has developed agreed routines to explicitly teach students the expectations of our School Core Values to enable all students to be successful.