UK Edition: Refusal Data Tracker and ABC Pattern Finder: SEND Behaviour Data, KS4 and Post-16

Two weeks of simple refusal data, then a page that helps you find the pattern before the review meeting.

"He refuses everything" is not something a SENCo or an educational psychologist can do much with. "He refuses written tasks in period 3, mostly after a supply day, and it stops when he gets a choice of where to start" is. This tracker gets you from one to the other in about five minutes a day.

What's in it (14 pages)

• Define It First: a one page definition builder, so every adult counts the same thing

• A full refusal ABC (antecedent, behaviour, consequence) log, and a quick tick box version for busy rooms

• One filled in example week for a fictional Year 11 pupil, so staff can see what good notes look like

• Scatterplot, task type and setting event trackers (poor sleep, missed breakfast, supply cover or a timetable change)

• Pattern Finder and a "Best Guess: Why the No?" worksheet

• A chart linking the likely reason to strategies to try

• A team meeting summary and a 4 week progress graph

It is not a formal FBA and does not replace your school's SEND process. It makes that conversation much easier.

Please note

This is classroom practice, not a behaviour policy. It does not cover restraint, seclusion or physical intervention; follow your school's behaviour, positive handling and safeguarding policies, and the pupil's EHCP or behaviour support plan if they have one.

Written by Jeremy D. Gooch, a teacher with 20+ years in education and a certified crisis prevention trainer. From The Transition Cliff.

Keywords: SEND, EHCP, Preparing for Adulthood, KS3, KS4, Post 16, ABC chart, behaviour data, work refusal, functional behaviour, SENCo, behaviour support plan, data tracking