26 - Dr. Tim McDonald on Building a Behaviour Curriculum

In this episode, Brendan Lee speaks with Dr. Tim McDonald who is currently the CEO of YMCA WA and previously led Catholic Education WA, the Minderoo Foundation and was the Education Lead for Knowledge Society. Recently, he wrote a paper for the Centre for Independent Studies titled: Teaching Behaviour: How Classroom Conduct Can Unlock Better Learning. Throughout this conversation, he touches on a lot of the key points from the report and talks about what schools can do to build a behaviour curriculum. He also answers some of the tough questions on things such as phones in schools, exclusions and behaviour expectations.

Resources mentioned:

• Teaching Behaviour: How Classroom Conduct Can Unlock Better Learning
• Classroom Management: Engaging students in learning
• Tom Bennett, Running the Room
• Anita Archer
• Urie Bronfenbrenner
• Doug Lemov

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