How do our school’s behaviour policies reinforce positive online SEL skills?

• Clear and consistent policies and procedures related to student behaviour (when promoted effectively), send a strong message to the whole-school community about the school’s beliefs and actions to encourage a safe and supportive environment, both online and offline. Policies that encourage positive online SEL development and behaviour also build on the responsibilities and rights of students to meet the normative expectations of the school community.
• Online SEL skills include:
  • Self awareness online:
    • Recognising feeling emotions and moods online
  • Managing ourselves online:
    • Managing reactions to emotions, setting rules or limits, self regulating online
  • Social awareness online:
    • Respecting others online, understanding positive and negative relationships online
  • Decision making online
    • Evaluating benefits and risks online and seeking help
  • Relationship skills online
    • Communicating respectfully online
  • Use the eSafety Toolkit for Schools to help prevent and respond to online safety incidents.
  • School leaders can support staff to implement policies by ensuring staff are:
    • very familiar with the behaviour policies and procedures and act on these
    • aware of and are comfortable with their role and understand role boundaries, especially in the online environments.