ABSTRACT
Modelling expected behaviours – practising what we preach and preaching what we practise.The behaviour that you are willing to tolerate in your ‘lived in’ group/classroom is the real set of rules that your children will keep. It is no good to tell children that they must talk politely to one another if you shout at them, for instance. If your words match your actions, you are teaching children to take words seriously and to internalise the rules behind them. If your
it is likely that the children will ignore the words and build their morality on their experience of your personal actions.
