ABSTRACT
The Elton Committee was set up in 1989 to consider ‘what action can be taken to secure the orderly atmosphere necessary in schools for effective teaching and learning to take place. During Committee visits to schools they occasionally encountered individual teachers, and even entire school staffs, who were suffering from low morale. In writing Report Committee tried to make recommendations which would help to create conditions in which fewer teachers would take a pessimistic view of their daily work and more would find grounds for optimism. Committee examined or observed a number of different training approaches which appeared to meet the needs of students and teachers who had taken part in them. If a whole-school behaviour policy is to succeed it will need to be tailor-made to the precise requirements of the individual school. School discipline is not solely an issue confined to the classroom. It permeates the whole life of a school.
