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Strategy-makers, victims and former bullies discuss anti-bullying

The best anti-bullying strategies for primary and secondary remain hotly debated. Leading advocates are interviewed, including children's charity Kidscape, in this video which links with Every Child Matters. Go beneath the rhetoric and explore the key strategies on offer. Kidscape recommends a multi-layered approach including assertiveness training for victims. Also interviewed in this video are those behind the controversial "no blame" method; reformed bullies and former victims; and schools minister Jacqui Smith. And Pam Orchard, the headteacher who ordered a mass suspension of 40 girls after a single bullying incident in 2004. Each contributor reflects on the lessons learned from their experiences of bullying and gives their views on how best to beat the whole-school issue of bullying. Bullying affected one in four of the 140,000 callers to Childline in 2004.

Beating Bullying

Professional development and interview advice for teachers

Gain insights into professional and personal development as two teachers going for senior leadership positions get expert coaching and interview strategies to improve their interview performance, in this careers video for teachers. Assistant headteacher Rebecca Clark wants to become a deputy headteacher but lacks confidence in interviews, while Mike Lambert is frustrated in his role as a head of department and wants to become an assistant headteacher. Both Rebecca and Mike go through two mock interviews, and between their first and second interviews, professional development coach Simon Cooper-Hind reveals strategies to help each candidate overcome interview problems . Can they improve their performance in their second interview?

Becoming a Senior Leader

Follow the learning experiences of three autistic brothers

Including pupils on the autistic spectrum at primary and secondary brings particular challenges for schools. This whole-school video on SEN shows an honest account of life with autism, with views from three autistic brothers. Inclusion can be challenging for teachers, and for the pupil school life can be a buzzing confusion of uncertainty. Meet brothers Luke, Joe and Ben Jackson. Their mother Jacqui is outspoken and articulate about how teachers can support pupils with autism, and the boys are extremely candid about how their condition affects them. For Luke, there are many positives. He describes brother Joe as 'the most imaginative person you could ever meet' and Ben as 'the nicest and most honest kid'. Jacqui and the boys share their ideas about living with autism, as do the teachers who are working with Joe and Ben to ensure their inclusion in school life. There's also an exercise devised by Luke that helps teachers imagine what the world is like for people with autistic spectrum disorders.

Being Different May Be Cool - On The Autistic Spectrum

Gladeana McMahon advises a leadership team on working together

Life coach Gladeana MacMahon is called to Bowker Vale Primary in Manchester to help the school's leadership team work together efficiently and implement a new government initiative. Members of the team - led by headteacher Ian Lawton - fill out questionnaires before Gladeana arrives, enabling her to make sure there are no conflicting personality types within the group. In fact, the team of six teachers gets on so well that it takes a physical shed building exercise to demonstrate exactly how they can be helped. The team falls naturally into the experienced and inexperienced. Gladeana suggests strategies to help break down this divide and begin the process of building an effective team to run the school.

Bringing a Management Team Together

Mike Baker investigates new models of school leadership

Journalist Mike Baker finds out more about the changing routes into headship and discusses how schools are responding to a shortage of prospective school leaders. Finding creative ways of addressing the difficulties faced by a shortage of prospective school leaders has become a driver for new models of headship. Schools can now share headteachers, with arrangements varying from the informal through to formally binding legal federations. The flexibility is encouraging if you're considering a school leader role, but prospective headteachers must also ensure they hold the National Professional Qualification for Headship, as from March 2009 only NPQH graduates will be able to apply for the top jobs.

Changes in School Leadership

How collaborative purchasing can help schools save money

A school bursar shows how collaborative purchasing makes her budget stretch further, and goes through the platforms and organisations she uses to do this. Business manager Sue Simkiss from Queen Mary's School, Walsall, visits Sue Heath, bursar at Haydonleigh Primary School in Swindon to see just how she uses collaborative purchasing opportunities. Sue works with the Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation, one of a number of local authority owned purchasing organisations that provide savings for schools on a range of products. She also uses an online collaborative purchasing site, which allows schools to post requests that suppliers can then pitch for, and 'storm' purchasing event, where schools club together to purchase a high volume of a single item, to save money. Finally, Sue Simkiss goes thorough a shopping list to see how these techniques can help her save money for her own school.

Collaborative Purchasing

Information about the new easier way to cross the pay threshold

Presenter Mike Baker speaks to teachers and career expert Sara Bubb, about the new process of crossing the pay threshold for teachers. Since September 2009, the process for teachers crossing the pay threshold at the top of the main pay scale has been simplified and now focuses on two successful performance management reviews. Many teachers have previously found the process of crossing the pay threshold complicated and time consuming. However more than 90 per cent of teachers who apply are successful and as a result gain greater financial rewards. Mike Baker asks will the new system prove more popular amongst teachers.

Crossing the Pay Threshold

Primary deputy head David Young seeks help to become a head

Primary school deputy head David Young, who has been interviewed for two headships recently, asks for help from Teachers TV's life coach Gladeana McMahon. He is not sure why his career hopes have been disappointed so far as he is good at his job, but he hopes that Gladeana can help to find out what is holding him back. Gladeana sets up a mock interview with a panel of three experienced serving or former headteachers so she can observe him in action. After a thorough debrief with the panel, she comes up with the plan to take David for acting lessons to build his confidence and teach him to be more authoritative.

David Wants a Headship

Saving money by using e-office technology

A look at the benefits of e-office technology and how it can improve efficiency for a school, as well as save money. Bursar Sharon Wells of Marsh Hill Primary School is keen to see if e-office technology can save her money, and along with DCSF procurement expert Claire Dicks visits Gonville Primary School in south east London to find out more. Administrator Cheryl Gilbert explains how she uses the OPEN system to order classroom essentials online, and outlines the benefits of using a cashless online school dinner payment system. Headteacher Mark Ducker explains what the MLE (managed learning environment) has done for the school, both in saving money and achieving success. Claire suggests other ways in which e-office systems can improve the efficiency of the school, from paying for school trips online, to taking recruitment online, and then calculates the savings Sharon could make.Please note, The Department for Education is no longer involved in the OPEN e-marketplace mentioned in this video.

E-Office Systems

A school changes its approach to foundation stage literacy

At Erdington Hall School in Birmingham a newly-appointed headteacher believes that the key to taking her school out of the OFSTED underachieving category is effective foundation stage literacy. The school is fairly socially deprived, 50 per cent take free meals, 70 per cent have English as an additional language. But far from battening down the hatches, the school decides to change its foundation stage approach, making play the central focus. A foundation stage leader is appointed and we see her in her new nursery role. We also follow two new reception teachers with both literacy and PSHE activities. The school uses performance data to track the children's weaknesses and the impact of the changes they are making. We look at the school's phonics initiative and hear that the children are remembering sounds and letters more effectively with this approach. The programme concludes with a re-inspection; will the changes have an impact on the school's categorization?

Professional Development for Quality Teaching

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