Behaviour Clip Charts

Managing behaviour in the classroom can be a challenge: how do you reward and recognise the good behaviour of your students? How do you record and address negative behaviour? How do you motivate students to maintain the behaviour you want to see, and change the behaviour that prevents them, and others, from learning?

Many teachers turn to, or are required to use, behaviour charts such as clip charts. From smiley faces to traffic lights, and colours to pithy phrases, Pinterest and Teachers Pay Teachers are awash with examples of clipchart designs you can copy or buy to use with named clothes pegs or magnets.

But do they work? And if so, how, when and why do they work? Do clip charts help our students learn to behave, and behave to learn? Or are they teaching our students something very different?

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