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Pivotal Behaviour Management Surveys

If you are considering engaging Pivotal for a long term Behaviour Management Project or Accelerated Intervention Project our Survey Service is the best place to start.

Our student and staff questionnaires:

      -    Engage everyone in the project from the outset
-      Identify precise training needs
-    Provide baseline data to measure the impact of training projects
 -       Quantify the impact of Pivotal Programmes on your institution
 -   Ensure all stakeholders have a voice in designing and implementing policy and practice

Our questionnaire service allows you to gather vital data relating to behaviour management from students and staff.  We run this questionnaire at the start of a project to obtain information that helps us to tailor training appropriately and gives us a baseline for the start of the project.  We then can run the questionnaire again at the end of the project to assess the impact that the training has had within the institution.  We upload questionnaires online for you to make it easy for your staff and students to access at their convenience.  The forms are digital and results of each form are sent to us automatically and electronically.  This cuts out the paper chase. 

We will also analyse the results and produce a report for you that recommends ways forward.

We are currently running staff and student questionnaires in several colleges.  Below is a sample of a section of the Staff Survey.

Questionnaires are, of course, tailored for each individual college.  Questions can be changed, removed or added – the content is entirely negotiable.

The costs for the entire questionnaire project are fixed. They include tailoring, preparing, uploading analysing and producing a report for both the students and the staff.

 

Elements of Pivotal Projects

Examples of Current Projects

 

Chalvedon and Barstable Federation, Basildon, Essex
Mixed secondary, 2500 on role

This two year project is part funded by the TDA (Teaching Development Agency) and was launched in September 2007 with a focus on Motivation and Rewards. Training for 160 teachers and 95 support staff spread over three half days is a prelude to regular training and interventions.  An action group has been established to be the catalyst for change within the body of the staff. The project is being closely evaluated for classroom impact.  All stakeholders are involved in the project; students, parents, teachers, governors, teaching assistants and support staff, non teaching staff.  Large scale INSET will be followed by smaller seminars, one to one coaching, e-mentoring, action research and genuinely inclusive consultation.

Pivotal aim to spark a mini revolution in staff pupil relationships and create concrete and measurable improvements to teaching and learning.  

The rewards policy and practice that is emerging is highly innovative and will be the first rewards system that is not about ‘What can I get for myself?’ but has at its heart altruism, ‘What can I earn for others?’.

‘The best training in Behaviour Management I have ever had’ 

Chalvedon delegate, September 2007

 

Barnfield College, Luton
FE College

Four Pivotal trainers are engaged in an intensive 26 day intervention project in April, May and June 2008 with department within the college. All elements of Pivotal training are being applied to this project

-  Pivotal surveys

-  Tailored on site training

-  Intensive in class coaching

-  E mentoring

-  Collaborative work with the Management on Policy and Practice

For six weeks Pivotal trainers are working alongside staff tweaking practice and working towards common goals to improve teaching, learning and student management.

 

Cambridge Regional College, Cambridge
FE College

 After the success of initial on-site training this large and successful college have engaged Pivotal to: 

-  Produce baseline data on staff training needs and student expectations

-  Advise on the ambiance of the college, examining the effect of environment on behaviour

-  Train all staff in a consistent approach to managing and motivating students 

This project represents a core strand of the College’s drive to raise achievement and create a productive working environment for staff and students. Evaluations from the initial training sessions were extremely good with many staff reporting strategies making a difference. 

 

Littlegreen SEBD School, West Sussex
Special school

Littlegreen School is a special school for boys at key stage 2 and 3 who have social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD).

Pivotal have been working with Littlegreen School for the past three years. The success at Littlegreen has been through intensive regular INSET training for all staff.  Pivotal have worked with Parents and trained Learning Support Assistants and bus drivers. Tips and classroom resources are used by all stakeholders.

Littlegreen is an excellent example of how Pivotal training can create real and lasting change. The head teacher has highlighted the impact of Pivotal training in a recent successful inspection report. 

‘Pupils continue to make good progress in their social development, especially in behaviour and attendance’

‘In lessons, relationships are good and adults work together effectively to manage pupils’ behaviour even when it is potentially challenging’

‘One parent said, ‘Before attending Littlegreen my son was excluded for bad behaviour several times and after that he only managed three hours a day. Now he wants to go to school every day’

Littlegreen School OFSTED report 30 January 2007

 

Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth College, Leicester
FE College, 1850 students 16-19

Pivotal began with full INSET for a small number of staff and as a result of staff feedback we are delivering a number of seminars annually as part of the CPD programme.  With bespoke training for the 16-19 age group Pivotal have led seminars on ‘Sanctions’, ‘Making Praise Meaningful’ and ‘Dealing with Difficult People’. Our tips service is accessed by large numbers of the college staff and our training manuals and resources are helping to make the training sustainable.  

 

Yardley’s Secondary School, Birmingham
Large City Centre School 

Pivotal have delivered INSET for all staff on Behaviour Management and worked on a programme of one to one coaching with individual teachers. We have consulted on policy and practice and been a catalyst for concrete change in classroom routines and positive relationships between teachers and students. Walking into the school you can immediately see the impact of Pivotal training. Training for LSA’s and support teachers helped to develop the principles and practice in one to one work.

In December 2007 Pivotal delivered full staff INSET focused on intelligent use of praise, rewards and the language of effective behaviour management. This training took place in the ‘graveyard slot’ on December 21st and the evaluations were excellent.

Yardley’s Senior Management Team enthusiastically recommend Pivotal training and interventions.