The Teaching Coach is a platform to help teachers, leaders and support staff by providing a range of quality pastoral, teaching and career resources.
You will find a host of resources here from form times and assemblies through to interview prep, application letters, professional development and guidance. Not to mention, lessons, schemes of work and learning resources.
If you can't see what you need, you can email me at: theteachingcoach@hotmail.com.
The Teaching Coach is a platform to help teachers, leaders and support staff by providing a range of quality pastoral, teaching and career resources.
You will find a host of resources here from form times and assemblies through to interview prep, application letters, professional development and guidance. Not to mention, lessons, schemes of work and learning resources.
If you can't see what you need, you can email me at: theteachingcoach@hotmail.com.
In this resource, you will find a PDF which includes several pages of guidance on student panels in teaching interviews.
This is not limited to any specific job role and is intended to be good guidance for any post.
It contains top tips, guidance as well 60 questions which you might get asked on a student panel on interview.
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This resource aims to develop teacher understanding on how to support best learning and revision. It is not specific to exams, but covers ‘learning effectively’ which applies to both exam preparation as well as learning in general in lessons time.
The resource covers:
how the brain works and how the brain learns, including the science behind learning a new skill
how to build new knowledge pathways in the brain
interleaved learning
spaced learning
concept mapping/retrieval practice
failure as a learning tool
collaborative retrieval as a learning tool
This session also includes:
3 videos (not owned by me - included to develop knowledge)
a ‘starter’ and a ‘plenary’ for use in the CPD
a midpoint learning check
an activity for department to spend time thinking about their practice
You can also find a PDF of ‘revision strategies’ attached as a follow up for staff.
This is a great activity for teachers of all experience but would be especially good for RQTs or NQTs who may just be starting to think about how students learn. This could also be good for form tutors of Y11 and Y10 to think about in preparation for exams.
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This resource is Set 3 of potential Head of Year interview questions. This includes 12 key questions you are likely to be asked on a Head of Year or pastoral Middle Leader interview.
The list is, of course, not definitive, but the questions are based on experiences in 3 successful interviews for Head of Year posts.
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This resource consists of an additional 15 questions you may expect to be asked on an interview for head of department/faculty/curriculum area etc.
Set 1 and Set 2 can also be purchased from my shop.
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In this resource, you will find a 31 questions for a CPD/Teacher Coach role. These questions as designed to used by anyone who looking at a supportive teaching and learning role, for examples, mentoring teachers, leading on CPD in school or working closely with the lead on teaching and learning. A great range of questions to help you prepare for interview.
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In this resource you will find a 2 page example letter of application for an assistant principal.
This resource includes many ideas you could include your own letter as well as providing you a useful structure for organising your own application or supporting statement. This is intended to be a starting structure only and should be developed using your own ideas.
In this resource, I outline 20 potential questions you may be asked in a behaviour support assistant or behaviour teacher/officer role.
These are, of course, not exhaustive - however preparing for them will give you a good idea of how you could answer many questions for this style of interview.
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In this bundle you will find almost 100 questions which you may be asked on an SLT interview.
This includes a range of follow up questions and covers a broad range of areas for questioning!
No answers included.
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In this resource, you will find a task designed to help you prepare for an English head of department interview. Specifically, this is a task using a fictionalised curriculum model. You are asked to explain how you would improve the model taking into account a 5 year curriculum.
The task also asks you to consider curriculum intent and pupil entitlement to run alongside it. During an interview, you may be asked to complete an in tray of this nature, but you may also be asked to explain your thoughts and theories on curriculum intention and implementation - so this practice model/task is a great way to think about the changes you’d make to a curriculum you have never seen
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This resource is Set 2 of potential Head of Year or Head of House interview questions. This includes another 17 key questions you are likely to be asked on a Head of Year or pastoral Middle Leader interview.
The list is, of course, not definitive, but the questions are based on experiences in 3 successful interviews for Head of Year posts.
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You can also find set 1 and set 2 of these questions on my shop - separately or as a bundle.
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In this bundle, you will find resources for helping improve and monitor the behaviour of your year group, form or class.
This includes:
my PDF ‘40 Ideas for Heads of Year’ for behaviour and rewards and attendance
a behaviour contract for students
a behaviour contract for students and parents
a behaviour intervention tracking grid to track your interventions with students
a behaviour reflection worksheet to encourage students to reflect on their own behaviour
a multiple vulnerability venn diagram to help you explore multiple disadvantages with your year group
individual behaviour improvement plan to identify triggers, and set targets for improvement
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This resource is an 26 slide rewards assembly template. This is fully editable and is intended to be used a base for Heads of Year to complete, save and use.
This is intended to be a time saving resource and is ready to use once filled in!
I advise downloading ahead of time in order to request nominations from staff to use the assembly effectively.
This assembly includes sections on:
favourite moments and space for photos
year group nominations for mindset, effort, behaviour and more
form tutor nominations for mindset, effort, and supportive peers etc.
attendance rewards
positive point awards including a year group competition
year group attendance competition
You will need to also organise rewards for the various slides which will need to be done in advance.
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In this resource, you will find 2 behaviour contracts and a individual behaviour plan.
The first contract is a student led, informal behaviour contract. This is to get students reflecting on their behaviour as a step prior to having a parental meeting. Students can complete this with their teacher, head of year or form tutor and it doesn’t need parents to be present.
The second contract is parent-carer and student behaviour contract. This is a more formal contract which may be used when behaviour becomes more concerning and parent-carer is invited in for a formal meeting before further measures are put in place. This may form part of a behaviour panel and has space to be signed by parents to make the process more formal.
This is detailed behaviour plan which is useful to reflect on triggers and plans for dealing with behaviour. It’s great for sharing with staff who teach the student with poor behaviour.
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In this bundle, you will find a compilation of resources perfect for making your first applications to schools and for interviews.
This includes:
guidance on writing your first application
guidance on student panels
3 sets of potential questions for an ITT/NQT/ECT position
guidance on visits to schools and how to ace this first impression
15 questions to ask your interviewer at the end of your formal interview - always the worst part of the interview when your mind goes blank!
a 3 page guide to planning an amazing interview lesson including loads of top tips and advice
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This resource is a second example application letter for the position of SENCo in a secondary school.
This letter should be developed by including your own examples of where you have completed the points referenced and the impact of that work as well as your learning from the work you have completed. This letter is for guidance only and should not used exclusively to apply for a SENCo role but instead used to support the writing of your own letter. Letters should always be tailored to the school you are applying to and your own experiences.
This template is 2 pages long.
This resource is aimed a secondary school SENCo role, but could provide ideas for other stages of education also.
Please note: covering letters should not exceed 2 pages in length.
I never recommend sending blanket templates for prospective roles and always advise an application is tailored to you and the school.
This bundle contains resources for new Heads of Year/House/KS. It has lots of great resources for new pastoral staff to hit the ground running.
This contains a massive 20 resources including:
2 form time activities focused on developing skills for being great learners, growth mindset and organisational skills
A compilation of literacy and numeracy form time activities including a numeracy challenge and 20 literacy tasks - great for tutor time
15 frequent pastoral scenarios and what to do in them - ‘5 Big Pastoral Questions’ x 3
attendance tracking spreadsheets to help you track attendance effectively
3 easy to use, ready to go assemblies on confidence self esteem, the effect of random acts of kindness and the importance of choices and responsibility
a ready to edit weekly assembly template
a 14 slide back to school September expectations assembly and student success contract for your year group
two sets of pastoral development courses for your own professional development
an example improvement planning document to help you effectively plan improvements for your students and the year group
3 attendance posters for form boards
a form time activities booklet - easy to use and focused for students
E-booklet ‘40 Ideas for Improving Behaviour and Attendance’ to help you smash your year group goals!
In this resource you will find an example business case for my NPQSL submission.
This is just intended to be used as a guide for completion of your own business case, as I struggled to find many decent examples when creating mine.
My NPQSL write up can also be found on my shop as well as some other supporting documents. Some information has been removed from this business case for anonymity.
My NPQSL scored 26/28 in total.
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In this 4 page resource, I cover guidance for making your first application to a school as an NQT or training teacher.
This includes lots of great tips on what your personal statement should include as well as answers to questions about how it should look and what makes an effective statement.
The resource also includes an example letter template for writing your statement.
This resource is designed to give training teachers the confidence to make their application and complete their personal statement comfortably!
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This resource is a 15 sheet tracker designed to be used for up to three classes. It includes:
a sheet to track data for each group, including SEN information, PP and ability info, as well as having a space for your teaching notes about students, gender and student name
a sheet to track assessment data including baseline data and up to 6 assessments which (you can add more as needed)
a homework tracker for you to track the title of each piece, who has completed each piece and space for you to record sanctions
a detention tracker for you to accurately record detentions and who has turned up for them
an intervention tracker - for you to log interventions with students making tracking of actions you’ve taken easier, including for apprasials and line management discussions.
The spreadsheet is brightly coloured and visual pleasing as well as being pre-filtered and ready to use!
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In this bundle, you will find resources to help you organise meeting a group of students for the first time. This is perfect for any teacher but especially good for RQT and NQTs. This includes:
a set of ice breaker activities for meeting a new group and to get to know them
an expectations and success lesson to kick start your lessons
a positive behaviour reward stamper to help encourage great behaviour in your lessons
a class tracker to help you tracker data, assessments, detention, interventions and homework
AND
a 6 page PDF packed full of guidance for meeting a new group of students
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