Restorative Classroom Practice: A resource by Belinda Hopkins
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Assumptions about Academic and Behavioural errors (Porter, 2007 as quoted in The Restorative Classroom by Belinda Hopkins) |
ACADEMIC ERRORS | BEHAVIOURAL ERRORS |
Errors are accidental. | Errors are deliberate. |
Errors are inevitable. | Errors should not happen. |
Errors signal need for teaching. | Errors should be punished. |
Students with learning difficulties need modified teaching. | Students with behavioural difficulties need punishment. |
5 Key Restorative Themes and 5 useful questions |
Theme | Language |
Everyone has their own unique and equally valued perspective | What’s happened from your perspective? |
Thoughts influence emotions, emotions influence actions. | What was going through your mind and how were you feeling at the time? And since? |
Empathy and consideration | Who has been affected and how? |
Needs and unmet needs | What do you need (so that things can be put right and everyone can move on? |
Collective responsibility for problem solving and decision making | How can you (we)address all these various needs together? |
The Restorative Classroom by Belinda Hopkins) |
- Restorative Questions when something goes wrong
- What happened?
- What were you thinking at the time?
- What have you thought about since?
- Who has been affected by what you did?In what way?
- What do you think you need to do to make things right? (IIRP)
- Restorative Questions for person harmed
- What did you think when you realized what had happened?
- What impact has this incident had on you and others?
- What has been the hardest thing for you?
- What do you think needs to happen to make things right?(IIRP)