This practical resource will:
- Help develop a restorative ethos in the classroom including clarify links between needs, unmet needs, harm and repair, creating a class agreement, encouraging cooperation and developing self-reliance and self-regulation through empathy and mutual respect and more.
- Encourage and develop restorative pedagogy through developing shared responsibility for learning, using 'circle time' principles for curriculum delivery, providing examples from various subject areas and more.
- Provide practical application of the relationship and behaviour management aspect of restorative justice and also highlights the need for congruence between behaviour management and pedagogical style.
- Look at considerations and resources for the infant, junior and secondary classroom.
This wide-ranging resource clearly shows individual teachers and teaching assistants to apply restorative principles and practices in their day to day work with young people.