The Empowerment Approach
What is The Empowerment Approach?
At Downs Junior school, we have adopted ‘The Empowerment Approach’ to behaviour. It uniquely brings together a range of disciplines, including neuroscience, neurobiology, psychology, and coaching.
Key elements of The Empowerment Approach:
- Teaching children about their brains
- Agreeing high expectations
- Supporting children to prepare and plan to be at their best for learning and play
- Responding by connecting when things go wrong
- Following up every incident and solving problems together
- Coaching young people to resolve unhelpful behaviour patterns
- Recognising our own executive function skills and how these can be developed/changed to help us learn.
Behaviour Policy
Our behaviour policy has been developed in line with The Empowerment Approach. Please click on the below link to read our policy.