High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Thursday, September 22, 2011
Behaviour
The 2009 teachers' perceptions data indicated that most indiscipline in school is low level but that this is regularly experienced by teachers. Data below represent the percentage of teachers who experienced different types of behaviour at least once in their classrooms during the one week prior to the survey:
| Primary | Secondary |
Talking out of turn | 96 | 99 |
Hindering other pupils | 85 | 90 |
Making unnecessary (non-verbal) noise | 78 | 78 |
Getting out of their seat without permission | 69 | 70 |
General verbal abuse towards other pupils | 37 | 52 |
Physical aggression towards other pupils | 39 | 33 |
Physical violence towards other pupils | 22 | 12 |
Sexist abuse & harassment of other pupils | 6 | 13 |
Racist abuse towards other pupils | 4 | 6 |
General verbal abuse towards the teacher | 7 | 23 |
Physical aggression towards the teacher | 3 | 3 |
Physical violence towards the teacher | 2 | - |
For full descriptions of categories please see the main report
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