Running the Room with 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.

Since 2013 researchED has grown from a tweet to an international conference movement that so far has spanned three continents and six 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 this episode, we talk about Tom’s journey from founding researchED to writing ‘Running the Room’ and the core principles within the book. We explore the joys and pitfalls of having an opinion on twitter and the current hot topic of exclusions in schools.

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In the episode, we talk about ‘Running the Room’, Tom’s bestselling book on behaviour management, you can buy the book here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Running-Room-Teachers-Guide-Behaviour/dp/1913622142

We also touch upon the training which Tom offers to schools on behaviour management and implementing the ideas from Running the Room in practice. You can book this here: https://tombennetttraining.co.uk/