Behaviour Management

Developing Restorative Practice

Ready to transform how you handle classroom conflict? This course delivers the tools you need to embed restorative practice in your daily teaching. You will discover the six principles behind restorative practice, how it can positively impact your learners and techniques to put it into practice. You'll learn how to foster an appropriate culture to embed restorative practice, how to gain consent from learners to manage their conflicts using restorative practice and how to use restorative language.  
This course relates to Teachers’ Standard 8. The specific areas of each are described below: 
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Anna Edwards & Carly Watkins

1 - 2 hours

Online Course

By completing this course, you will:

understand what restorative practice means, including its six underlying principles;
differentiate between restorative practice and traditional punitive methods, including the benefits;
appreciate the importance of creating a classroom environment which fosters the use of restorative practice;
understand how to use restorative language;
know how to resolve a conflict using restorative practice.

Course Lessons

Written and presented by:
Anna Edwards

Anna has been working in education for the last twelve years in a variety of roles. She has worked across London in a range of different positions and settings including assistant head teacher in one of the largest federations in the capital. Anna now splits her time between writing for Twinkl, class teaching and consulting for a charity which specialises in parental engagement with school. Parental engagement, alongside curriculum and behaviour, are of particular interest to Anna. In her spare time, Anna is the mother of two young boys and enjoys long walks with her dog. 

In collaboration with: Carly Watkins

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Carly Watkins has over twenty years of experience as a primary school teacher, including several years as an assistant headteacher, with responsibility for whole school curriculum development and overseeing pupil progress and attainment. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Education Practice and an NPQ in Leading Teacher Development.

Carly has been a mentor for both student and Early Career Teachers and currently facilitates the Early Career Framework for ECTs and their mentors, delivering training at conferences and via online seminars. At Twinkl PD, Carly heads up pedagogical professional development, a role which means she can support educators to develop their personal practice and pedagogy, something she is passionate about, on a national scale.