Episode Snapshot – Solution- Focused Behaviour Strategies  

Kelly Long chats with Dr Geoffrey James, an expert in solution-focused therapy, a technique where a goal-directed collaborative approach is used to help facilitate change. On this episode, Geoffrey and Kelly will be discussing how you can use the technique in the classroom and within a school mentoring programme to help bring about change for those pupils who display challenging behaviour, or for those pupils where non-engagement is an issue.  

Dr Geoffrey James guides us through:

• What is solution-focused behaviour strategy?
• How a solution-focused behaviourial approach can work in the classroom.
• Advice on shifting to a solution-focused mindset.
• Why focusing on the strengths of the student is important in bringing about a behavioural shift.
• How to encourage students to recognise that they are experts in their own lives, they are resourceful and are able to develop the solutions to overcome their problems.

In the first featured guest interview of Season 3 of the Inspiration 4 Teachers podcast,  Kelly and Dr Geoffrey James reveal the benefits of introducing solution-focused behavior strategies in the classroom.

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