<p>This decision-making tool is designed to help users systematically evaluate different options based on multiple factors and stakeholders. The tool consists of a series of worksheets that empower the decision-making process by adding additional factors or stakeholders for your analysis.</p> <p>Instructions about how to use the decision-making matrix is on the first page.</p> <p><strong>The simplified instructions are:</strong></p> <ol> <li>Enter the options you wish to compare</li> <li>Enter the factors influencing your decision</li> <li>Rank the options for each factor.</li> </ol> <p><strong>Additionally, if you need:</strong><br /> 4. In table 2, rank the factors in order of importance</p> <p><strong>To include relevance of stakeholders:</strong><br /> 5. In table 3, enter the stakeholder names<br /> 6. Rank the stakeholders, for each factor</p> <p>Enjoy your results!</p>

<p>This guide to Engaging and Motivating students has been developed to support teachers of EAL students in mainstream and online classrooms.</p> <p>The online learning focus helps to keep the content up to date and the resources, activities and advice it contains can be used in any classroom.</p>

<ul> <li>Hassle-free organisation of evidence towards teacher’s standards</li> <li>Automatically updates overall progress</li> <li>Collates activities into a visual tracker to identify strengths and areas to improve</li> </ul> <p>This resource is an easy to use filing system where teachers can record all their evidence of meeting the DfE’s teacher’s standards.<br /> Once teachers make a note of the standards they have achieved for each activity, the totals are automatically tallied.</p> <p>It takes all the hassle out of recording your evidence by keeping everything in one file and using separate tabs for each type of activity you did to achieve the standards.</p> <p><strong>Instructions</strong></p> <ol> <li>Record the name of the activity in the correct worksheet (tab)</li> <li>Identify which standards you have achieved by typing a 1 in the corresponding cell</li> <li>Check the front worksheet to see your totals change as you go.</li> <li>When you have achieved 5 pieces of evidence towards a specific standard, the cell will automatically turn green. (5 is the suggested total used in many training schools - especially for trainee teachers)</li> <li>When you notice you haven’t achieved enough specific standards, you can go to the worksheet and record a strategy to help you think of new activities.</li> </ol> <p>If you would like some fresh ideas about activities or methods of achieving more standards, please get in touch and we can explore the avenues open to you.</p> <p>Thank you for taking the time to read this information - and if you decide to use my resource(s), I double thank you - I hope they prove useful to you and your colleagues.</p>