The Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) program at Carbrook State School is a whole-school approach adopted by all community members who are committed to providing opportunities for students to regularly build, perform and reflect on quality habits and values. These quality habits reflect the school's four values: be responsible, be respectful, be safe and be a learner. These values enable students to incorporate a common language into their everyday conversations that promote positive and safe classroom and playground experiences. By implementing a whole school system of positive and appropriate behaviour management, it is the responsibility and priority of all staff to define, teach and support appropriate student behaviours.
The implementation of PBL consists of six main features:
1. PBL Team: our PBL team meets regularly and consists of teaching staff, administrators, and inclusion team members.
2. School wide expectations: we have four defined school values; be responsible, be respectful, be safe and be a learner. These values are clearly defined and displayed throughout the school.
3. Teaching expected behaviours: our fortnightly PBL focus is explicitly taught in all classrooms at an allocated time each week with the focus being referred to on parade, school Facebook page and the school Newsletter. Each lesson is aligned to the Explicit Teaching Model which allows teachers to demonstrate the desired focus behaviour, students to practice and teachers to provide feedback on the students demonstrating the desired behaviour.
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4. Positive Acknowledgement: acknowledging and praising students is an important part of the PBL framework. Our positive reward system includes Gotchas, Fair play tickets, and Student of the Week Awards.
5. Discouraging inappropriate behaviour: our response to inappropriate behaviour is outlined in our 'Student Code of Conduct'.
6. Use of Data: The PBL team analyse and track data to inform the PBL focus, monitor student outcomes, design and implement interventions.
Tiered Intervention
Carbrook State School uses PBL as the foundation for our integrated approach to learning and behaviour. PBL is a preventative, differentiated model grounded in practical strategies, targeted planning and data informed decision making. Based on a problem- solving model, in PBL, school staff match increasingly intensive interventions to the identified needs of individual students.
Students are supported across three levels of intervention:
Tier 1
Universal prevention: school-wide and classroom systems for all students, staff and settings
Tier 2
Targeted interventions: small group systems for students at-risk behaviourally and academically
Tier 3
Intensive interventions: systems for students with high-risk behaviour and/or learning needs
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(Education Queensland, 2022)