British schools look to checklists to improve pupil behaviour [Independent.ie]
- Published: 19 October 2011
BRITISH Schools are being encouraged to introduce hospital-style "checklists" aimed at improving discipline in the classroom, it was announced today.
It could see teachers displaying school rules, as well as using rewards and punishments for good and bad behaviour in class, and telling parents if their child has been naughty.
The checklist has been drawn up by the Government's behaviour adviser, Charlie Taylor, who is also head of Willows Special School in Hillingdon, north-west London.
He said the idea for a checklist was based on a similar scheme introduced to hospitals by surgeon Atul Gawande.
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