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.
This PDF includes 5 key questions asked on pastoral interview and their answers in detail.
These are intended to support existing or new heads of year as well as being potential questions you may get asked on interview.
In this set I answer:
how do you deal with angry parent?
how do you support a student struggling to fit in?
how do you lead a team?
how do you deal with poor student behaviour?
do you monitor student progress?
These answers are suggestions – they are not necessarily definitive.
If preparing for interview, I always recommend you tailor your questions to the school you’re applying to and ensure you are giving specific examples of what you’re able to offer.
If in post, always remember the policies of your school.
You can also find Set 2 of this resource here: www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12527827
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This bundle is an inspiration bundle and is made up of 12 resources designed to promote motivation and inspire students.
The bundle includes five ready to use assemblies focused on raising aspirations, exploring confidence and self esteem, kindness to others, charity and positive thinking.
There is also two form time sessions - one on being a great learner and the other on developing a growth mindset.
This bundle also includes three sets of Little Inspiration cards. These are small cards designed with inspirations quotes on. Each set is focused on a different part of wellbeing.
positive thinking and happiness
overcoming challenges
setting goals
These can be handed to students to remind them to focus and be positive throughout the day or could be used as a part of a session.
Finally, this bundle includes a coffee shop style reward stamp to inspire positive behaviour and a ‘self esteem’ check in board to inspire positivity and wellbeing.
£26 of resources
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This PDF contains a set of 18 positive thinking cards. Each card contains a quote or message which relates goal setting.
These have been designed to be used to support students in thinking about setting goals. They can be printed or given to students as a set or used as part of a session. These could also be used during tutor time or PSHE lessons if appropriate.
There are lots of potential uses. :)
These are not a replacement for counselling or other mental health services and are not intended to be reductionist.
Instructions for use are included also.
You can find set 1 on positive thinking here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/little-inspiration-cards-set-1-positive-thinking-happiness-12347514
You can also find set 2 on overcoming challenges here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/little-inspiration-cards-set-2-overcoming-challenges-growth-mindset-12347774
Finally you can find a bundle of inspirational resources, including assemblies and form time resources here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/little-inspiration-card-assembly-form-bundle-positive-thinking-goal-setting-and-overcoming-challenges-12348103
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This PDF contains a set of 18 overcoming challenge or growth mindset cards. Each card contains a quote or message which relates challenging negatives thoughts and overcoming difficulties.
These have been designed to be used to support student thinking and wellbeing. They can be printed or given to students as a set, or used as part of a wellbeing session. These could also be used during tutor time or PSHE lessons if appropriate.
There are lots of potential uses.
These are not a replacement for counselling or other mental health services and are not intended to be reductionist.
Instructions for use are included also.
This PDF contains a set of 18 positive thinking cards. Each card contains a quote or message which relates to positive thinking or happiness/attitude.
These have been designed to be used to support student positive thinking and wellbeing. They can be printed or given to students as a set, or used as part of a self-esteem, positivity or wellbeing session. These could also be used during tutor time or PSHE lessons if appropriate.
There are lots of potential uses. :)
These are not a replacement for counselling or other mental health services and are not intended to be reductionist.
Instructions for use are included also.
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This spreadsheet is designed to be used to track attendance for a year group.
It is set up into three sheets.
The first is for tracking attendance year to date and tracking weekly attendance as well.
The second is set up to track the multiple interventions which you may use to try and raise attendance.
The final is for tracking attendance rewards to ensure your rewards are well distributed.
The first sheet is conditionally formatted - this means that the sheet will change colour depending on the % of attendance inputted. This will give you a visual overview of any students who are concern.
All of the sheets have been set up to filter - so you can easily find a student name or see who has had rewards etc.
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In this 4 page resource I detail guidance for completing a prioritisation task in a pastoral interview. This includes answering the questions:
What is a prioritisation task?
Why do interviews use it?
What questions might you be asked on prioritisation?
What kind of answers could you give to prioritisation questions?
This also provides an example of a prioritisation task and a worked answer of the order I would organise the tasks in as well as my justifications.
Great for preparing you for one of the in tray tasks at interview!
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This bundle includes 3 venn diagrams which can be used to better understand your year group and which students may have multiple vulnerabilities - therefore which students may need more targetted support and intervention.
They focus on the different vulnerabilities a student may face including: behaviour, PP, male, safeguarding and attendance.
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This resource is a venn diagram which can be used to better understand your year group and which students may have multiple vulnerabilities - therefore which students may need more targetted support and intervention. This venn looks at safeguarding, behaviour and PP.
This sheet pairs well with my venn diagram template and they can be used together.
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A bundle of my three venn diagrams can be found here: www.tes.com/teaching-resource/understanding-your-year-group-class-vulnerability-venn-diagram-bundle-12344429
This resource is a venn diagram which can be used to better understand your year group and which students may have multiple vulnerabilities - therefore which students may need more targetted support and intervention.
This sheet pairs well with my venn diagram template and they can be used together.
You can find the bundle of my 3 venn diagrams here: www.tes.com/teaching-resource/understanding-your-year-group-class-vulnerability-venn-diagram-bundle-12344429
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This resource is designed to help you identify which students you should be targetting and monitoring either in your year team, your class or your department.
This venn diagram focused on SEND, PP, and male students.
The venn diagram is a simple and yet effective method of identifying which students will need access to additional support.
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This resources contains 20 pages of literacy activities for KS3 - Year 8 and Year 9 students.
Perfect for form times, or catch up literaxhsessions as well as homework. Complete and ready to use.
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This resource is a planning grid for preparation to complete a piece of creative writing/descriptive writing from an image.
This includes 4 images of abandoned places and a checklist to encourage students to ensure they cover basic and advanced writing skills. The sheet also includes sentence starters and a planning section to allow students to think about what they will include in their writing.
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This scheme contains approximately 20 lessons which cover writing skills and reading skills. Good for intervention as well as for form times and catch up.
Lesson 1-2: Baseline Assessment
Lesson 3-4: Spelling Rules
Lesson 5: Homophones
Lesson 6-7: Using commas, full stops and capital letters
Lesson 8: Reviewing language features and word types
Lesson 9-10: Inference and literal meaning
Lesson 11: Paragraphing
Lesson 12-13: Using past tense – is/am and was/were
Lesson 14: Sentence types
Lesson 15: Using punctuation for effect
Lesson 16-17: Writing assessment
Lesson 18-19: Re-complete baseline
You must also allow for additional time in lessons to complete spelling tests.
This unit also contains a reading baseline assessment using Roald Dahl’s Boy as well as a writing baseline focused on GCSE AQA skills and writing from an image.
This resource also includes 6 sets of spelling tests to use weekly as homework.
This unit is ready to use and has been delivered with success before.
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In this resource, there are 20 individual literacy activities. These are perfect for use as starters or for use during form time literacy sessions.
Each activity is self contained and should take approx. 10 minutes.
The tasks focus on:
homophones
proofreading
‘unch’ words
syllables
connectives
vocabulary
capital letters
‘ice’ words
the spelling police
writing tasks
question marks
tenses
commas
pronouns
plurals
spelling (boggle style)
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A complete 40 page booklet which includes a focus on ALL basic literacy skills.
This is perfect for form time activities, for intervention sessions as well as for catch up and booster sessions. It could be used for homework as well as summer work.
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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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This resource is designed to be used as method of reflecting on the support for students in school including any additional provision which may be need putting in place as a result of exclusion or isolation.
It allows for good opportunity to consider if all angles have been covered of behaviour concerns before planning further support.
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This resource is an 8 week selection of numeracy activities to be used in form time. This resource includes the numeracy task itself as well as possible solutions.
At the end of the 8 weeks, there is a final competition - this can be used to put forms head to head or could be used by form tutors individually.
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This reflection sheet is a fun, light hearted way for tutors to reflect on the year just gone. It is perfect for the end of the year and to get tutors reflecting on their form tutor role, their highlights and their low lights.
I have had great success with this in the past a tutors generally appreciate the opportunity to feedback as well as the opportunity to reflect in a informal way on their year.
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