Developing Staff Training in Virtual High Schools

Staff Bullying in Catholic Schools

This article reports the findings of research into staff bullying in the Catholic schools of a large metropolitan area in Australia. A summary of the responses from over two hundred staff members to a survey instrument containing both closed-format and open-ended components is presented. It was found that a large percentage of teachers (97.5%) perceive they are or have been bullied. Specific ex...

The Effects of Training Staff in SEBD Schools in Positive Handling

Dean has been the Director of Positive Behaviour Strategies Ltd and has been a Principal Tutor for Team Teach since the SEBD School that Dean was working in closed as a result of a restructuring of SEBD provision in Sheffield in 2005. In this article, he describes his research for part of his recent SEBDA/ University of Leicester master's degree. Dean looked at the impact of training in 'positi...

Virtual Schools

Virtual communities in schools as tools to promote social capital with high schools students

The general aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that students belonging to a school online community would show higher levels of both offline bridging and bonding social capital than a control group of students, not using the online community. We further hypothesized that the more students used the online community the higher their level of their offline bonding and bridging social cap...

Developing high- potential staff – an action learning approach

Suggests a selective approach to leadership development in organizations, focusing on employees identified as having high potential or those on the development “fasttrack”. Identifies (from research) key psychological characteristics of fast-track staff, and discusses the match between those characteristics and the properties of an action learning approach to development. Concludes with a plan ...