Gordon Ibbotson has been an AST since 2002 and spent his first year working with the Teacher Training Agency. His focus for the year was in the field of Behaviour Management and strong links have been forged with the Education departments of York and Huddersfield Universities.

Since September 2003, Gordon has run the Behaviour Unit at KJS and supported the work of the Training School delivering Behaviour Management courses as part of the EPS Programme.

Throughout 2004/5 Gordon worked with the County Archive on the 'Reaching the Teacher' project. This project aimed at opening up the archive and making it more accessible for teachers. The outcome of the project was a CD containing many resources from the archive which can be used in the classroom.

Alongside this project, Gordon worked with the County Advisory Service delivering training to Teaching Assistants in the theory of Behaviour Management. This was spread across 10 conferences, all over the county.

As a History specialist, Gordon is working closely with the County Advisor on various aspects of Teaching and Learning and has supported several schools in the county. At the moment he is in the midst of creating a network of committed history teachers who meet termly to discuss various issues.

As Citizenship Co-ordinator, Gordon is working on Student Voice projects with both North Yorkshire County Council and Knaresborough Council.