2.0 Behaviour technician/SSP/Administration Managed Behaviours: Definitions for Major Behaviour Report
Teachers play an important role in keeping their students safe and in the reintegration of students back into the classroom.
| Behaviour | Definition |
|---|---|
| Physical Violence | Student engages in actions involving serious physical contact where injury may occur (e.g. fighting, punching, hitting with an object, kicking, hair pulling, scratching, etc.) |
| Aggression or Threatening | Student makes threats of violence or harm towards another student or staff member. Threats can be made through words or gestures. |
| Defiance Towards Staff | Student constantly refuses to follow directions, talks back, speaks rudely, or makes rude faces or gestures towards any staff member. |
| Bullying | Student repeatedly delivers disrespectful messages ∗ (through words or gestures) to another person, including threats, intimidation, obscene gestures, pictures, photos, or written notes, and excluding others. This includes disrespectful messages made online. |
| Sexual Touching | Student engages in inappropriate sexual touching |
| Vandalism | Student damages school property or the property of another student or staff member (including teacher houses). |
| Drugs / Alcohol | Student is under the influence of or possession of illegal drugs or alcohol. |
| Theft | Student who stole property. |
| Weapon | Student is in possession of guns, knives, bullets (or other ammunition) or other objects with the intention of hurting someone. |
| Chronic Refusal to go to class | A student who refuses to go to class after asked by the teacher on multiple occasions. |
| Chronic Skipping/Absenteeism | Student who is absent for 10 days or more in a row without justification. |
∗ Disrespectful messages include negative comments based on race, religion, gender, age, national origin, ethnicity, disabilities or other personal matters.