The Behaviour for Learning Programme was initiated in 2010. The programme aims to explore the ways in which an individual teacher, allocated with 22 hours per week, could develop a school ‘Behaviour for Learning Programme’ specifically targeted at students in need of intensive individualised intervention (Level 3). The Behaviour for Learning Programme teacher works with identified students individually or in small groups on Behaviour for Learning programmes that are designed to meet their social, emotional, behavioural and academic needs, so they can achieve and succeed in school.
Rather than responding after young people present chronic behaviours (‘a wait to fail’ intervention model), a school's ‘Behaviour for Learning Programme’ includes preventive strategies and early intervention approaches for all students.