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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Let the child score themselves on the same sheet the teacher scores. Two columns, filled in separately, then looked at together.
At first the two columns can be miles apart, and that is the useful bit rather than a problem. Nobody is being caught out. Over the weeks the gap…
Good help leaves you more able to do it yourself next time. If the whole thing only works while the other person is in the room, something has gone sideways.
There is a real difference between someone building your schedule for you and someone sitting beside you while you build it. The second is slower and…
When you agree to something, agree who follows up. Do you tell them if it slips, or do they check in with you?
Most of the hurt around late work comes from nobody having said. You assume they will ask, they assume you will speak up, and the silence in between…
If you keep it all in your head, it is worth asking who else is keeping it. Very often somebody nearby is doing the remembering, and neither of you has ever said so out loud.
This matters because from outside it looks like coping, right up until that person is away, unwell or worn out by it. Ask the plain question at home:…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
A behaviour agreement needs six things in it: the goal, exactly what the child does, what they earn, what happens if they do not, signatures from everyone, and an adult who sticks to it.
Most of these fall apart over what was meant rather than over what was done, so write the specifics down to the level of what counts as finished. The…