How to turn around Australian kids’ appalling classroom behaviour
Australia’s education system has consistently been marked down when it comes to the behaviour of students and the capacity of teachers to manage classrooms.
The dismal state of student behaviour has long been the elephant in the classroom. To improve this, we must now put behaviour and classroom management at the centre of education reform.
Few statistics in Australia’s education scorecard are more glaring than the poor performance in the OECD’s disciplinary climate index – an indicator of students’ experience in class.
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Glenn Fahey is a research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, and formerly held research and policy positions with the OECD.
