Study of this topic enables pre-service teachers to learn research informed knowledge and skills which, when applied in practice, will particularly benefit children and young people who have complex needs, disabilities and challenging or concerning behaviours. Pre-service teachers will gain a deeper, holistic understanding of behaviour in settings and will be able to confidently apply insights to their own professional practice. Critical, research-informed, engagement with key issues in this field is facilitated by this topic including how behaviour by learners can be more deeply understood through attention to: effective differentiation; teacher/student wellbeing; facilitating student engagement and motivation; educational exclusion; responding to poor mental health; the impact of disabilities, giftedness, bullying or trauma; and strategies to enable positive relationships with parents/carers and with allied professionals.
This topic aims to enable:
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