<p>A self assessment tool to give a profile of your own currently perceived strengths as a basis for monitoring and reflection.</p>

<p>It is worth recognising the importance that our lifestyle has on our ability to cope with pressure, particularly if we have made recent changes to it. Frequently, those parts of our life which provide a balance to work activities become eroded because of perceived additional demands from our chosen occupation equally, we can find ourselves over-doing or under-doing an activity which has a direct relationship to health or physical image. Drinking, smoking, exercise and diet are obvious factors here.</p> <p>You and/or staff in your department should fill in the form and monitor any changes over time to support staff. This survey considers some key aspects of lifestyle.</p>

<p>This is a simple tick list to aid planning and preparation of brilliant or outstanding lessons. This is great as a refresher or for those new to teaching. It was designed as a starting point to be developed by yourself and eventually you will not need it.</p> <p>Before the lesson<br /> Start of the lesson<br /> Throughout the lesson<br /> Ending of lesson</p> <p>Hopefully, the assessment and review that happens at the end of the lesson should inform your future planning.</p> <p>Resources: Outstanding Lessons Tick List.doc</p>

<p>An easy to use template to use for students to record their own evaluations at the end of project, unit or topic. Students can log their reflections of their own progress and comment of their views of assessment.</p>

<p>This is a great activity to reflect on the effectiveness your marking and feedback. This activity can also be used to reflect on the practices of a subject area or phase. It includes questions around effective practices and the impact on teacher workload.</p>

<p>A simple template to use for you to be able to track and record the evidence of the impact of your strategies.</p>

<p>Team Review Workshop is an activity ready-made for any team meeting. You can run in virtually any situation.</p> <p>It helps you build a shared understanding within a team about what’s working well, areas in need of improvement and areas of opportunity.</p> <p>It’s a great way to get a team ready to do some positive action planning.</p> <p>There’s very little facilitation involved as it’s easy for people to grasp what they have to do and why they’re doing it. It’s transparent, democratic and a great stimulator of conversation within the group.</p> <p>Dotmocracy, the method used for prioritization of the resulting themes, is a popular technique for voting within groups using dot stickers. It’s also known as “dot-voting”, “multi-voting” or “voting with dots”.</p>

<p>Teaching is a challenging profession. It needs high levels of emotional and sometimes physical input. This is part of the explanation why it can be therefore so rewarding. However, prolonged exposure to this atmosphere can escort people to the condition we call stress– fundamentally a negative state that can be defined as ‘an assault on self’. Stress is a negative feeling state which has both psychological and physical components.</p> <p>The scale on the self-belief survey is an sign of the amount to which individuals feel they can accomplish a range of professional goals. Research has shown that those people with a higher than justified self-belief tend to cope better than those with realistic or low levels of self-effectiveness.</p> <p>High scores on questions 1-3, 5 and 7-10 and low scores on 4, 6, 11 indicate upbeat self-beliefs (and vice versa).</p> <p>Look through the responses you have received from your department and allow for additional responses specific to the feedback received, and to your particular school or department. Based on this feedback, the following causes of stress are most likely to be identified;</p> <p>• Lack of ownership of key decisions.<br /> • Limited control over professional development.<br /> • Not being valued by students or leaders.<br /> • Poor health.<br /> • Personal circumstances.</p>

<p>A CPD tool for quickly getting to the‘root causes’ of an issue before developing solutions. A great team-builder because it gets the group’s<br /> buy-in as part of the process</p> <p>Objectives</p> <ul> <li>To help the team understand all the causal factors that have a bearing on an issue / problem (i.e. fix the real problem rather than treating the symptoms</li> </ul>

<p>Parent View Questions in Excel, Word and a Word analysis template to do your own version internally. You would also be able to review any changes over time with secure evidence to judge changes in school culture.</p>

<p>Some pointers to enable discussion around reviewing the impact of your strategies.</p>