Notre Dame Education Lecture Series: Tom Bennett
The State of Education: a trio of lectures outlining why behaviour still isn’t where it needs to be, and what can we do about it?
The Faculty of Education and Philosophy & Theology (FEPT) is pleased to welcome Tom Bennett OBE to Australia to deliver a series of public lectures in Fremantle, Sydney and Melbourne. The lectures will also be broadcast live.
The lecture will be introduced by Professor David de Carvalho, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education and Philosophy & Theology at The University of Notre Dame Australia. The trio of lectures aims to encourage discussion of this vitally important topics below among teachers, school leaders, parents, and the broader community.
If you have any questions please contact virginia.wynne-markham@nd.edu.au.
Lecture details
The series of lectures will take place at the following venues, with live broadcasts also available:
Fremantle
8 May 2024
6pm to 7.30pm AWST
Santa Maria Lecture Theatre
ND1, 32 Mouat Street
Sydney
14 May 2024
6pm to 7.30pm AEST
Pioneer House Lecture Theatre
NDS5 / 209, 128 Broadway
East Melbourne
16 May 2024
6pm to 7.30pm AEST
Catholic Leadership Centre
576 Victoria Parade
About the lectures
Effective behaviour management in the school classroom is crucial to learning. It has been the subject of a recent parliamentary report and last year, all education ministers in Australia mandated its inclusion in University Initial Teacher Education degrees. Tom Bennett OBE is the UK Education Department’s independent behaviour advisor. In sponsoring this series of three lectures, The University of Notre Dame Australia aims to encourage discussion of this vitally important topics below among teachers, school leaders, parents, and the broader community.
8 May
The Dark Ages: historical and current myths in school behaviour.
14 May
The Enlightenment: the rediscovery of practice and evidence in school behaviour.
16 May
The Renaissance: preparing future teachers to make good behaviour management decisions.
Meet the guest speaker
Tom Bennett OBE
Professor of School Behaviour, Academica University of Applied Sciences.
School Behaviour Advisor to the Department of Education, UK.
Tom Bennett OBE is the founder and director of researchED, a non-profit organisation that runs teacher conferences about research and education. He is the author of several books on teacher training, the most successful of which is Running the Room: the teacher's guide to behaviour. In 2015 he was appointed the UK government's advisor on school behaviour, or ‘behaviour tsar,’ and is in charge of the Behaviour Hubs program.
