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Framework for Supporting
Framework for Supporting
Positive Student Behaviour
Positive Student Behaviour
“Adolescence is a period of life with specific health and developmental needs and rights. It is also a time to develop knowledge and skills, learn to manage emotions and relationships, and acquire attributes and abilities that will be important for enjoying the adolescent years and assuming adult roles.” (World Health Organization, 2020).
Our goal is that all students embrace the JIS values and choose to have value-added interactions with their peers, teachers, and support staff both on campus or while representing JIS in the broader community. Faculty, counselors, administrators, and parents actively promote and support value-added interactions. It is the expectation of the Middle School that a student who behaves in a way that contradicts JIS values will take responsibility for his or her actions and strive to resolve the problem. We all make mistakes, and students must have the opportunity to reflect and learn from these mistakes as they grow toward adulthood. To facilitate an effective partnership with parents, when there are concerns, the school will communicate, when appropriate, through teachers, counselors, or administrators.
Supporting Adolescent Development with Compassion and Understanding
In Middle School, we believe that students develop along a continuum. At JIS, all students have the opportunity to develop personal responsibility and respectful behavior and acquire the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to positively contribute to society. We encourage respect, acceptance, and appreciation of individual differences on campus so all students can meet their true potential.
Rapid physical and cognitive developments occur during adolescence. Changes in the prefrontal cortex, the area responsible for executive functions: decision-making, organization, impulse control, and planning for the future, are continuing. It is expected that during this time of growth and change, children will make mistakes and will require encouragement, and some may need behavior interventions.
Logical and Natural Consequences
Logical and Natural Consequences
All people make mistakes, which is true of adolescents. Essential learning for young people is that actions have consequences. Unlike punishments, which are penalties for a behaviour, consequences are the result of an action and may be positive or negative.
Logical consequences do not naturally occur as a result of behaviour, but are intentionally planned by parents, teachers and administrators. Logical consequences are similar to what would happen to an adult in a similar situation, therefore teaching students skills that they will need to be successful later on in life. Logical consequences strive to be related, respectful, and reasonable (Nelson, 1985).
Students will be encouraged and supported to make it right. The purpose of the consequences is to assist a student to reflect on their behaviour and to be provided with an opportunity to learn and improve relationships
Students are supported to consider the consequences of actions they take and how these may impact themselves and others. Consequences can help students understand why some behaviours are more desirable than others. Teachers and administrators work together to help students see the natural and logical consequences of their actions and decisions.
Reported incidences will be documented, tracked, and handled according to school-wide and MS specific procedures.
Updated March 2023
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