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If you want your school to grow, the school and its community needs to take charge of that growth. Every pathfinder school operating at the 'Networked' or 'Digital Normalisation' stage of the school evolutionary stages continuum discussed in the first article of this series had taken charge of its own evolution. While a few have had some astute support from their education authority, the majority embarked on their evolutionary quest 15 to 20 years ago, and throughout their journey, have recognised the importance of being proactive.

'The first thing is just two words: go cold. Much of student behaviour - certainly whilst not reactive anger, the proactive anger - is about desiring a behaviour from the teacher, it's about controlling the teacher's behaviour. And what children in the state of manipulative aggression want is they want an emotional response. They want you to behave emotionally, because if you behave emotionally then you're not going to be entirely in charge.' In today's podcast UK educator Phil Beadle joins Teacher to discuss behaviour management, but in particular, the different de-escalation techniques that educators can use to manage challenging behaviours in their classrooms.

Teaching resources to stimulate classroom discussion.  Copyright, Creative Content, Making Movies, Online Piracy & more.

"The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education helps educators gain confidence about their rights to use copyrighted materials in developing students' critical thinking and communication skills. These slides accompany the book, Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning by Renee Hobbs. You can offer a staff development program using the materials in the book, plus these slides, to introduce your colleagues to the power of the Code. Use the lessons below, which are complete with multimedia, readings, discussion questions, activities and hands-on production projects to help you teach about copyright and fair use."