Curriculum Area

My Crazy Life - The Trouble with Charlotte

Teachers TV resource: Charlotte has been in and out of trouble during her teenage years. At 17-years-old she has more than 80 arrests under her belt.

28.10.08

KS1/2 PSHE - SEAL

Teachers TV: In this programme, staff from West Drayton Primary School in Middlesex share their experiences and views on SEAL (the Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning).

28.10.08

How are schools using PESS to improve behaviour and attitudes to learning?

The stories here show just some of the ways that schools involved in the PESS investigation have used PESS to improve behaviour and attitudes to learning. PESS stands for Physical Education and School Sport - all of the content from this resource is illustrative of the way that one important curriculum area (PE and Sport) can have a positive and dramatic influence on the attitude of young people...

22.10.08

Teaching With Bayley - The Trouble with Girls: Treated Like Adults (with B4L commentary)

Teachers TV Resource: In the final part of this four-part series, John Bayley observes Jenna Peters, head of geography, teaching a lesson with a particular focus on her approach to teaching girls. Bayley suggests that girls should be given the means to evaluate lessons and explores this with the deputy head.

17.07.08

Manage That Class - Year 8 - Friday

Teachers TV resource: Find out how deputy head John Wootton is using ICT to dramatically impact the professional development of his teachers at Holyhead Secondary School in Birmingham.

19.02.08

Sustaining pupil engagement in literacy lessons

Why are children highly motivated and engaged in some classes, but not others? What causes pupils to go off-task? To find out, the researchers of this US study analysed literacy lessons in classes of children aged 5-8 years from 13 primary schools in which there was considerable off-task behaviour.

07.01.08

VisionWorks for Schools

VisionWorks for Schools teaches students to develop their emotional intelligence capabilities, improving both learning and behaviour. Our programmes help create kinder, more caring school communities and equip young people with life skills that benefit the whole community.

05.01.08

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

Primary NQTs - Simrit and Victoria - Episode 1 (with B4L commentary)

Teachers TV Resource: This programme follows two NQTs embarking upon their first term of work at Oldknow, one of the largest junior schools in the country.

23.11.07

Teaching with Lanovy-Taylor: Getting their attention (with B4L commentary)

Teachers TV Resource: The programme focuses on an NQT who was formerly a police officer who is finding that the strategies to elicit compliance which he used in the police force are not always transferable to the classroom. The focus is on low level disruption, and in particular, the difficulties of getting the class quiet and listening at the start of the lesson and at transition points.

02.11.07

Teaching With Bayley - Believe in Yourself (with B4L commentary)

Teachers TV Resource: Former teacher and behaviour management guru John Bayley thinks that one of the most difficult aspects of effective classroom communication is displaying confidence in order to earn the attention and respect of pupils.

20.07.07

1947 - Maintaining Classroom Discipline

A film, dating back 60 years, which highlights the different impacts of positive approaches to unwanted classroom behaviour compared with those which adopt a more rule-governed, punitive and heirarchical approach.

05.06.07

Classroom Swap - English and Drama

Teachers TV Resource: In this episode of Classroom Swap, two secondary English and drama teachers exchange classrooms for the day.

13.02.07

PGCE Secondary Trainee Teachers & Effective Behaviour Management: an evaluation and commentary

Support for Learning Vol 21 No. 4 2006 article by CAROLYN BROMFIELD

01.02.07

Teaching With Bayley - Power to the Pupils

Teachers TV Resource: Behaviour guru John Bayley visits a small comprehensive on the outskirts of Birmingham to help Jonathon Wilding, the new headteacher, overcome pupil misbehaviour and class disruption.

14.01.07

Behaving With Cowley - Out of the Classroom

Teachers TV Resource: Sue Cowley visits Baz Barrett, a Year 3 teacher in Birmingham, to offer advice on controlling behaviour when taking pupils out of the classroom environment.

12.01.07

Teaching With Bayley - The Need for Structure

Teachers TV Resource: Behaviour management guru John Bayley investigates the importance of good lesson structure and keeping students on target.

13.10.06

Teaching With Bayley - Too Much Talk

Teachers TV Resource: John Bayley is co-author of the classic guide Training Teachers in Behaviour Management. Here he helps a new teacher learn the crucial techniques required to manage pupils.

12.10.06

Autism and the Autistic Spectrum

Glossary item: Definition and commentary for the term 'Autism and the Autistic Spectrum'.

21.01.06

Young Children's Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This Second Edition revises and expands Marion Dowling's influential guide to the subject.

02.11.05