Adele Bates
Teacher, speaker, writer and educator
for students with Emotional
and Behavioural Difficulties.
My vision for education is one in which all differences are included and welcomed; education is flexible, relevant and leads towards positive social change.
About Adele
Behaviour and Education Specialist
I am a teacher, speaker, writer and educator for students with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. With over 17 years’ experience, I teach these pupils in a variety of educational settings, train others to do so – in schools, universities and conferences, and advise on whole school approaches to supporting these students.
“Adele has an expert knowledge, her inclusive and aspirational practice has supported pupils with SEMH needs to make good progress because they are motivated and secure in their learning”
“Adele fosters a safe, fun environment for students with SEMH; she has delivered high quality training to all staff – which had very positive feedback. Adele has promoted literacy activities across the Alternative Provision school including photo opportunities, extended writing competitions, staff reading and school trips for our students.”
What about you?
You are passionate about education for all – especially those ‘hard to reach’, ‘tricky’ or damn right occasional $&!*s.
You have the best of intentions to be inclusive and differentiate in your classroom and school – but somewhere along the way it’s got a bit messy… you may be:
- A school leader who is watching your students and staff become de-moralised over behaviour issues – resulting in a decreasing learning focus
- A classroom teacher or teaching assistant with a particular class or pupil who is disrupting the learning – and giving you sleepless nights
- A trainee or NQT, sometimes not even teaching your own class, and struggling to find a seemingly allusive behaviour management approach that works for you
What you need right now are some targeted solutions; tried and tested techniques; some wider perspective, long-term thinking (as well as what to do first thing Monday morning); and maybe a little TLC yourself; in order to transform the current status quo of disrupted lessons, stressed teaching staff and the occasional broken window.
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What Pupils Want
Sometimes I ask my students what they want, and from time-to-time I feel called to share them as they always blow me away.
Why are you doing this again?
This vloggy-blog will not require you to find an extra 10mins in your day, change your diet or start jogging. You just need the time it takes to read/watch this and contemplate three questions that help us connect with why we’re doing what we’re doing. What kind of leaders did we originally want to be? – and are we doing it?
Differentiation for pupils with SEMH
How do you differentiate for pupils with Social, Emotional and Mental Health issues or Emotional Behaviour Difficulties? The challenge with these pupils is that for many, if they are unable to access the work they will communicate that through negative behaviour.
