ABSTRACT
Behavioural systems in the classroom rarely change during the year to increase children’s developing learning behaviours. Through experience and research, the trainees need information about, and to be able to use, systems or behavioural strategies they come across with confidence. Trainee teachers using the Behaviour Journal observe and record their perspectives of various class management systems used by teachers and whole school behaviour policies. Systems are driven by the language of the adults, and children need to know what they are being asked to conform to and why. Adults in the classroom who organise systems assume the child is learning to manage their behaviour from the movement of the name on the charts. A classroom is an ecosystem environment full of growth, and that is why expectations of classroom rules, once assimilated and accommodated, need to change and develop with the needs of the children.
