Kingsbridge Institute of Learning

Session Overview:

This session will be split into two parts. Delegates have the option to attend the full/part training session. One registered place can be shared with a colleague.

AM Audience: All staff welcome to attend; specifically aimed at ECTs and Classroom Teachers

9:30-12:30  Tom's morning session will explore the psychology of behaviour management and look at how we can develop our understanding of ethical behaviour management. He will explore practical strategies of how to build a classroom culture with norms, routines and consequences that work in line with the school policy. Delegates will also be exploring de-escalation and restoration strategies to support challenging situations in the classroom.

PM Audience - All staff welcome; the session is specifically aimed at ECT Mentors, School Middle and Senior Leaders

1:15-4:15 Tom's afternoon session will explore the role of the leader in supporting staff and the wider school with behaviour management. Delegates will develop effective line management strategies to support and coach staff especially those new to the profession in managing classroom behaviour and challenging situations. They will develop effective systems of behaviour and norms, routines and consequences at the whole school level to improve accountability and consistency. Tom will explore a range of practical training and monitoring approaches to promote positive classroom and school culture linked to ethical behaviour management.

Session: 

Creating that space is one of the most important things a teacher needs to be able to do. But all too often teachers begin their careers with the bare minimum of training - or worse, none.

How students behave, socially and academically, dictates whether or not they will succeed or struggle in school. Every child comes to the classroom with different skills, habits, values and expectations of what to do. There's no point just telling a child to behave; behaviour must be taught.

Behaviour is a curriculum. This simple truth is the beginning of creating a classroom culture where everyone flourishes: pupils and staff.

Running the Room is the teacher's guide to behaviour. Practical, evidence-informed, and based on the expertise of great teachers from around the world, it addresses the things teachers really need to know to build the classrooms children need.

Bursting with strategies, tips and solid advice, it brings together the best of what we know and saves teachers, new or old, from reinventing the wheels of the classroom. It's the book teachers have been waiting for.

Biography:

Tom Bennett is the founder of researchED, a grass-roots organisation that raises research literacy in education and campaigns for better evidence awareness worldwide. It now holds events in six continents and thirteen countries, attracting thousands of followers and generating discussion and change in schools throughout the world.

In 2015 he became the UK government's school 'Behaviour Czar', advising on behaviour policy, as well as chairing the Mental Health in Schools panel.

He has written four books about teacher training, and in 2015 he was longlisted as one of the world's top teachers in the GEMS Global Teacher Prize. In the same year, he made The Huffington Post's 'Top Ten Global Bloggers' list.

He is also the Director of Tom Bennett Training, which works exclusively with the most disadvantaged students and schools in England, helping them to turn around.

His online resources have been viewed over 1,200,000 times, and he is a Teacher-Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.