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 selection of positive quote posters - these can be displayed in classrooms, for personal use or displayed in corridors.
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In this resource you will find a 5 page example letter of application for a senior leadership role, for example, 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.
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This booklet contains 40 ideas for Heads of Year to improve attendance and behaviour/rewards for their year group, providing both quick suggestions and long term ideas for improving behaviour and attendance for your year group. It contains 45 pages and lots of great ideas.
You can also find my 2nd booklet of this series here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/40-ideas-for-heads-of-year-leadership-in-and-out-of-school-booklet-resource-cpd-development-12396568. Booklet 2 focuses on ideas for leading your tutors, working across school and working externally.
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In this resource you will find 56 different questions you may be asked on a teaching interview.
These have been collated through experience and research with a variety of questions to get you ready to interview!
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This resources includes final 16 questions you may be asked on a teaching interview.
You can find this in a bargain bundle with other questions: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-teacher-post-interview-questions-12393341
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This attendance bundle includes four resources:
a detailed tracking excel document for logging attendance % and any interventions - this is conditionally formatted and ready for use!
a interview template to support an attendance action plan - this includes working with parents
a 6 week attendance monitoring card for students
A larger bundle of attendance resources can be found: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/attendance-bundle-attendance-tracking-improving-attendance-12440824
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This resources include another 20 questions you may be asked on a teaching interview.
You can find this in a bundle with 40 other questions here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-teacher-post-interview-questions-12393341
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In this resource, you will find 20 questions you might be asked on a teaching interview.
These are based on experience of several teaching interviews as well as additional research.
You can find more of these questions in a bargain bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-teacher-post-interview-questions-12393341
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This resource is an attendance interview/action plan template.
It includes space for student/parent and staff to discuss attendance issues and space to write up agreed short and long term strategies.
It also includes space for three final targets and a space to review targets.
It also contains space to write current attendance, previously used interventions and a space for parent/staff/student signatures.
Great as a part of an intervention for poor attendance.
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This bundle includes two improvement planning documents.
Each is focused on various areas of improving and planning for a year group - from ideas about assemblies and year group cohesion to plans for improving behaviour and attendance.
They include details about suggestions to improve on specific areas as well as ways to monitor improvements and evaluate impact.
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In this bundle, you will find 3 resources:
30+ page literacy work pack - a great resource pack for form times and for regular literacy slots
20 literacy activities - full of small literacy tasks which can be used during form time
12 weekly spelling tests
8 week numeracy challenge - 8 weeks worth of numeracy challenges for form time
literacy sessions which can be used to support developing literacy during form time (approx. content for 10 form times plus short starter style tasks and more spelling tests
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This resource is a detailed individual behaviour plan for students.
This is intended to be completed with students and parents/carers if possible also.
Its contents can then be shared with staff to help improve behaviour around school.
This particular plan includes sections on:
influence and motivations
triggers and warning signs
what good will look like and how we we’ll know we’ve been successfully
a review section
parent/student/staff signature section
key stats log
This can be paired with a behaviour contract - which can be found in my TES shop.
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This resource is a ‘behaviour reflection board’. This worksheet can be used to encourage students to reflect on their behaviour and to consider influences on their behaviour, their dislikes and likes as well as their triggers and how the believe they are best motivated.
This is designed to be completed by students individually or in groups and students be used to help plan a course of action. It can be paired with a behaviour action plan to share with staff as well as a behaviour contract.
I’d love to know if you find this useful.
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This is a perfect session to set out expectations with new groups, your form group or to start a new year. Great for lessons or for form time.
It includes tasks on:
meeting everyone in the group
introduction of expectations
an activity using positive quotes to discuss student goals
creating your own positive quote to inspire others
Perfect for new teachers and experienced alike!
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This resource includes a 13 slide powerpoint on the effective use of routines in your lessons.
It includes lots of advice and suggestions for using routines in your lessons as well as top tips about what routines to implement.
Perfect for NQTs or RQTs.
This can be used as a CPD, part of a CPD or simply as professional development.
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This resource includes a 14 slide powerpoint on the effective use of seating plans.
It includes research on seating plans, a workable class example for staff to have a go at planning for, top tips on using seating plans and further reading.
Perfect for NQTs or RQTs.
It can be used as part of a CPD, a CPD by itself or can be used by RQTs and NQTs as part of their own professional development.
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In this resource you will find ready to use ‘concern cards’. These are cards which can be used by staff and by students to ‘log’ concerns with form tutors or heads of year.
Cards can be kept in a space outside an office alongside a lockable box or safe space.
Students or staff can then complete the cards to refer a concern.
These are then picked up by head of year and they decide who can deal with the concern.
These can be used by staff or students to refer other pupils or by pupils to self refer.
These have been used successfully and with impact.
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This resource is a blank character profile sheet - perfect for use when creating character or trying to understanding character better.
I have had great success using this on multiple different occasions with a wide variety of different texts and characters and it has worked every time.
Best used when students are really pushed to complete in detail.
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In this bundle you will find resources which will be useful form tutors and for form time.
This bundle includes:
FORM ACTIVITIES:
a powerpoint of an 8 week numeracy challenge
a powerpoint of 20 literacy form time activities
2 literacy booklets with over 60 pages of literacy activities
a growth mindset form time
an organisation skills development form time
a form time/lesson on success and how to start the year right
a document full of ice breaker activities to get to know your form/class
INSPIRATION ACTIVITIES:
a behaviour contract - for targeting those key students early!
Set 1, 2 and 3 of my ‘Little Inspiration Cards’ - these are perfect for printing and handing to students to inspire them throughout the day
100 lesson behaviour challenge to get your form started right!
EMOTIONAL WELLBEING:
a self esteem check in board
an anxiety check in board
an emotional check in board
…all 3 perfect for targeting students emotional well being and encouraging them to reflect on their emotions as we return to school.
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This resource includes an hour long session (at least!) on how to stretch and challenge students as well as how to support them. This includes loads of ideas on how to differentiate for a variety of different learners and has plenty of quick strategies for staff to implement.
Including:
staff discussion about what diffentiation is
staff reflecting on their current use of differentiation
addressing misconceptions
a video focused on supporting more able students
20 quick ways to support low ability
20 ways to stretch high ability
suggestions for further reading
ideas of for long term support and stretch
This CPD also includes an editable booklet for staff to use during the CPD and I have included many of the templates referenced in the CPD which can be shared directly with staff to edit and use themselves.
A complete CPD ready to use!
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