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BBC news item: Schools should band together to provide social workers for unruly pupils and support groups for parents, according to the government's "behaviour tsar".

17.02.09

Behaviour classes 'lack impact'

BBC News item: England's flagship primary school social and emotional learning programme has had little impact on pupil behaviour, a study has suggested.

04.12.08

Pupils 'behave better than 1970s'

BBC News item: Primary school pupils are better behaved within the classroom than in the 1970s, says a long-term study by educational psychologists.

26.11.08

TDA welcomes children's secretary Ed Balls' announcement of a new pupil behaviour survey

TDA news: We welcome the findings that the vast majority of teachers consider themselves well-equipped to manage pupil behaviour, and that most believe pupil behaviour is good or very good.

24.10.08

Pupils' behaviour 'has worsened'

BBC news item: Nearly half of England's teachers think pupil behaviour has deteriorated in their school in the past five years, a survey for the government suggests.

24.10.08

Public 'over-worried by bullying'

BBC news: The general public is over-concerned by the problem of bullying in England's schools, research suggests.

01.08.08

A New Look for Behaviour4Learning

The Behaviour4Learning website is about to change. Following consultation sessions with a number of users and non-users from the ITT sector, Behaviour4Learning has worked with the TDA over the past year to produce this brand new design for the website.

31.07.08

A generation under stress? A report by Girlguiding UK and the Mental Health Foundation

This report reveals a generation of girls and young women who are managing a complex spectrum of feelings and emotions everyday.

24.07.08

Girl guides' warning on self-harm

BBC news item: Girl guides' leaders are warning that girls face sexual and consumer pressures to grow up too soon and many see self-harm as "normal behaviour".

21.07.08

School tips on anti-gay bullying

BBC news article: Teachers in England are being alerted to guidelines on how they can tackle homophobic bullying.

30.01.08

BETTER SUPPORT FOR EMOTIONAL WELLBEING IN SCHOOLS – 25 PILOT AREAS ANNOUNCED

DCSF news article: Minister for Young People Kevin Brennan today announced the 25 local authorities that will begin the Targeted Mental Health in Schools project.

24.01.08

Game for a singalong

TES Magazine article: What happens at break has an impact on lessons. How many teachers spend the first 10 minutes sorting issues dragged in from the playground? One idea that might be making a comeback is singing.

01.12.07

Praise is the key to tackling bad behaviour

Teachers should tackle poor behaviour by clamping down on shouting out in the classroom, insisting that pupils do not ask or answer questions without permission.

26.11.07

Catch and keep their attention

Angling - one of the country's most popular participation sports - is helping disaffected pupils from a deprived area of Nottinghamshire get back into learning.

26.11.07

Climb High

Bringing more relevant themes into technology is a challenge. However, it can be done, as this project, dealing with children's feelings about learning, shows. It is also helpful to find ways of bridging the gap between the ways pupils use computers in school and at home.

22.11.07

An exercise in Synthesis

A TES magazine article: Kairen Cullen explains how she helped a problem class make progress by focusing on the collective good.

29.10.07

How an award-winning teacher inspires pupils

Kevin Harcombe and Jo Shuter, who were both honoured at The Annual Teaching Awards, spoke to the BBC.

22.10.07

Don’t stop classroom chatter; it’s good for learning, says academic

The Times news article: Children should be allowed to move around the classroom and to work against a background of chatter as classmates exchange ideas, a leading US academic has recommended. This is an interesting piece of work, given that 'talking out of turn' (TOOT) is one of the most frequently mentioned 'low-level disruptive behaviours' (according to surveys of teachers).

16.10.07

Primary children 'suffer stress'

BBC news article: Primary school children and their parents are suffering from "deep anxiety" about modern life, according to a study of education in England.

12.10.07

Political lessons from discipline

BBC news article: Whenever a politician wants to talk tough, a speech about classroom discipline is never far away. David Cameron, assailed by leadership doubts, set out his own no-nonsense credentials with a speech that called for head teachers to be given more power to control and exclude disruptive pupils.

01.08.07