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‘Schools 'ignore bad behaviour' to fool Ofsted inspectors, says classroom tsar’

Article 'Schools' ignore bad behaviour 'to fool Ofsted inspectors, says classroom tsar' was written by Richard Adams Education editor on Tuesday 16 June 2015 21.29 in Guardian.

Tom Bennett, appointed by Nicky Morgan to improve teacher training on pupil behaviour in England, says schools also often leave new teachers unsupported. The expert on pupil behaviour believes that teachers ignore the magnitude of bad behaviour taking place in their classrooms. The inspectors are only shown certain lessons, which are often quite artificial. Some teachers are afraid to record bad behaviour.

Therefore it is necessary to help the teachers. Being left without sufficient support inexperienced teachers tend to acquire really bad habits: they may become aggressive or defensive instead of building up confidence and routines.

Tom Bennett knows very well all the typical mistakes of a newly qualified teacher from his own experience.

He cites examples from his own life. According to Bennett, who also spent six years running nightclubs in Soho, the official paper trail a school is supposed to leave will simply not exist, because if a school is very bad at recording bad behaviour then it will look pristine. Whereas the opposite might be true. Therefore, if time does not begin to help teachers, it could be much worse. Behaviour management in schools is important because it can potentially mean life or death for some pupils. Teachers see pupils just on the edge of their transition to adulthood. So that level of violence always exists on the periphery of your career. And if you are in a comprehensive school of any size, more than a few hundred kids, a certain percentage of them will go to prison, a certain percentage of them will be murdered, a certain percentage will get cancer or become politicians. You're always dealing with the percentages.

Tom Bennett thinks that schools should help kids as early as possible to self-manage their behaviour, to learn good things like self-restraint and civil discourse, teachers would be able to assist a lot of kids away from the kind of lifestyle that leads them towards the darker end of life and behaviour.