Summary
An overview of an open national programme sponsored by the NUT, which aims to effectively tackle poor behaviour in schools. Teachers first attend a 24-hour residential, where they work with external tutors to learn peer coaching methods, and find ways of dealing with behavioural problems. Teachers then work in pairs in their schools, providing coaching based on structured observation and feedback over a period of fourteen weeks. A review residential provides a form of self-evaluation and the chance to appraise and build upon what teachers have learnt over the course. Making time for the peer coaching sessions and residentials proved to be the most problematic aspect of the programme. However, teachers on the whole agreed that the gains outweighed the costs, and teachers continued to support each other using and building on the methods they have learnt after the programme had finished. The NUT's peer coaching model is also used as a framework for a range of other CPD programmes.