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[Mike Temple]

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July 08

Teachers should be able to search pupils to stop them bringing alcohol and drugs into school, says a review on tackling bad behaviour among pupils. Sir Alan Steer, head teacher of Seven King's high school in Ilford, was asked by the government to come up with recommendations. He discusses the findings.

[Mike Temple]

One of a great podcast series from Wes Fryer in the US

Podcast 257 Natural learning - What schools don't do by Steve Wycoff 1:12:30 but well worth the effort
Download from iTunes via Moving at the speed of creativity podcasts

TTT is sponsored by ESSDACK, the Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas in Hutchinson.
The official program description for this session was: How we learn naturally is far different than how we are taught in schools. If we are going to succeed in actually leaving no child behind, we’ll need to understand better how individuals learn and more importantly how schools will need to look to accommodate the learning needs we all have. We’ll also demonstrate what curriculum might look like in a learning environment designed for the way we learn naturally. We’ll also connect this new learning environment to the needs we are experiencing in society related to workforce readiness. Be prepared to have your thinking stretched.

I think this is a great listen as it suggests, no insists that leaning takes place only when there is failure. Link this into behaviour management and there's the reason we need to coach our students through the errors of judgement and poor choices they sometimes make - it's the only way they're going to learn. Punishing them is clearly NOT the way to teach them how to improve their choices and minimise their mistakes. Imagine if we took the same stance in math or literacy. We'd be back in the Victorian era (perhaps we still are!)

[Mike Temple]

I have recorded podcast #1 which looks at behaviour in the news. You are welcome to comment on this here

[Mike Temple]

Podcast #2 Personal injustice - In the sidebar in the GCast player - click 'Posts'

Looking at personal injustice. Something that happened to you at school that still resides as an injustice and has an emotional residue, even after all these years. Perhaps you'd like to comment on this here and relate a personal story for others to share

[Mike Temple]

Podcast #3

This is a short clip from Kevin's 'Building 21st century learners' podcast first published on Wes Fryer's 'Moving at the speed of creativity' and reproduced under a creative commons license