Ben’s good decisions at sport


Sport at Hagley

Student Ben Date 18 June 2008
Observer Chris (teacher)

We have been working at developing strategies for Ben to cope with other students who irritate him, particularly at sports. Two strategies have been to talk to a teacher about the grievance and to ignore the behaviour. Ben has been trying these strategies out.

Today, at sport, there were several boys who displayed annoying verbal behaviour to Ben.
He came up to talk to me about it and was able to cope when I said, “It’s nothing Ben, just ignore it.”

His response was to visibly relax and say, “Oh, okay”.

Ben was able to enjoy the game without incident.

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