Compare your interactions with students from pre restorative training to post restorative training

Compare your interactions with students from pre restorative training to post restorative training

We have looked at our strengths and weakness activity from directly after this training to review how we are interacting with students since participating in the PB4L training in March.

Since having restorative practice training and knowing everyone in the school is on the same page we feel more confident asking for support from ANY staff member rather than those just in the senior leadership team.

We are finding that in incidental conversations we are more likely to discuss/mention how behaviours of students are impacting us and how they make us feel. It may not be in an official discussion per say, but made as a comment but we know we are being heard. 

When talking our feelings with students, the students (most students) are beginning to realise that we are humans and we have feelings just the same way they do - we are not the robots they sometimes think we are. 

This was something we identified as a point for future development, so awesome that we have noticed we are becoming more comfortable having these trickier conversations, as teachers tend to try and act as if behaviour/words bounce off to 'stay strong'.

The newer staff members have said they are now more confident using the PRIDE values and school rules in these discussions and making links between the behaviours and these values - it has become a lot more natural and second nature rather than a conscious effort.

When these restorative discussions are taking place we are still observing emotion from most students, especially as they reflect on the impact they have had on those around them who weren't necessarily directly involved but have still witnessed what has happened.

We are still finding there are a number of students who are stuck in BED and refuse to pick up their OARs.

We still view an area for future development as being open to observations of us carrying out a restorative conversation when the time is right.