Leadership is the most crucial factor of a school's success. Building the culture of the school- the way we do things here- is one of the hardest things that any educator can achieve, and many have done so spectacularly well.
In this training day, Tom will share what he has learned from working with over 900 schools in 15 countries about the most practical and evidence-informed processes that successful leaders all share. There are no simple secrets, or quick fixes. But what there are, are techniques that work incredibly well in a wide variety of contexts.
Over two sessions, Tom will take attendees through:
- Behaviour policies
- School and classroom routines
- Building a whole school culture
- Behaviour modification
- Making in-school behaviour units effective
- Designing whole-school systems
- Using behaviour data
- The most effective staff behaviours
- Features of the most successful schools
- Features of the most effective teachers
- How to reboot experienced staff
- Using psychology to persuade
- Trouble shooting where the problems are
- The most common mistakes teachers and schools make.
Come along, ask questions, network, and reflect on the good that you already do- and the good you could do .
See you there!
Tom
About Tom Bennett
Tom Bennett was a teacher in the East End of London for thirteen years.
Currently he is the Director and founder of researchED, a grass-roots, teacher-led project that aims to make teachers research-literate and pseudo-science proof, and Tom Bennett Training.
Since 2013 researchED has grown from a tweet to an international conference movement that so far has spanned five continents and ten countries.
In 2009 he was made a Teacher Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. From 2008-2016 he wrote a weekly column for the TES and TES online, and is the author of four books on teacher-training, behaviour management and educational research. In 2015 he was long listed for the GEMS Global Teacher Prize, and in that year was listed as one of the Huffington Post’s ‘Top Ten Global Educational Bloggers
In March 2017, Tom published an independent review of behaviour in schools. He recently chaired the Behaviour Management Group for the DfE and is currently their Independent Behaviour Advisor. He coaches teachers and schools internationally in all aspects of behaviour management and research integration. He currently leads the Department for Education’s Behaviour Hubs project, a £10 million program designed to reboot behaviour skills in disadvantaged schools throughout the UK.
In 2023 Tom was inaugurated as a Professor of School Behaviour at Academica University, Amsterdam.
In 2022 he was elected to the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in her final New Year Honours List, for services to edcuation.
