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 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 resource is a 2nd practice data task for Heads of Year/Pastoral Leaders preparing for interview. The resource provides a fictionalised set of data from a fictionalised year group, space to analyse the data yourself and to come up with your three priorities.
This is the great way to practice your data analysis skills for interview from a pastoral perspective. This resource goes well with my other resources on raising attainment and analysing data as a pastoral leader.
How to analyse data as Head of Year: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/how-to-analyse-data-pastoral-leader-interview-cpd-data-analysis-and-progress-achievement-12436735
How to raise attainment as Head of Year: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/how-to-raise-attainment-secure-progress-head-of-year-house-pastoral-role-interview-cpd-12425572
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Almost 80 potential senior leadership interview questions - including main questions and likely follow up questions!
Includes questions on:
stress management
curriculum and evaluation
creativity
communication
partnerships
personal and leadership
technical skills
human relations
adaptability
decision making
securing results
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This resource is an example improvement planning document for Heads of Year and Pastoral Leaders. It is designed to identify specific strategies for improvement and suggested methods of improving tracking.
This document is designed for a focus on three key areas:
behaviour
attendance
attainment + homework
This would compliment well with my other improvement planning document on my shop The Teaching Coach.
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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 resource you will find, a 29 slide form time reward presentation.
It contains a selection of reward and celebrations for students including:
best memories
photos of the year
most positive points and fewest behaviour logs
attendance competition
student award nominations including: best overall, most improved, most supportive peer and best attitude
special metion nominations including: best hair, most laid back, best chef and future artist and the template for students in your form to vote for these if you’d like them to
The perfect way to celebrate the end of the year/term with your form!
Please note: this presentation requires some pre-planning and you may want to consider purchasing/sourcing rewards for your form to use alongside as well as allowing time for your form to vote in the ‘special mentions’ or ‘best bits’ sections.
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 you will find a 2 page example letter of application careers lead role.
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 example application letter example provides a framework for writing your own letter. This is not intended to be a complete letter and will need editing and changing to make fit for your own role.
I always recommend tailoring letters to specific job descriptions and ensure you tailor your letter to the school you’re applying to.
You should always provide examples of the initiatives and programmes you have run as well as data to prove impact and your own learning.
In this booklet, you will find:
3 christmas wordsearchs of increasing difficulty
4 detailed Christmas colouring sheets
13 worded numeracy questions
12 Christmas brainteasers
In total, 32 form time questions and activities for the lead up to Christmas!
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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 two page formal behaviour contact which can be used in parental meetings with students to set targets for behaviour within school.
This resource includes space for 3 targets with success criteria and a review deadline. It also includes space for reflection on behaviour concerns, what good will look like and strengths.
There is also space for students, parents/carers and staff to sign and space for additional notes.
In word format to allow for editing.
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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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This resource is an assembly on Halloween - including sections on the following:
a spooky entrance video with ambient alloween music
Halloween keyword task
a video about the history of halloween
a true or false halloween quiz
halloween multiple choice quiz
safety tips for halloween
links to exit music
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This resource includes several AfL/plenary or learning check resources to be used to assess student understanding and knowledge.
In this bundle you will find:
an editable blockbuster template: this should be used to get students to create keywords from the lesson or in conjunction with questions linked to learning in the lesson.
editable Facebook status slips: these can be used at the end of the lesson to summarise learning or during as a mini plenary to get feedback on learning so far.
editable learning reflection slips: these are intended to be used to encourage reflective thinking about learning in the lesson.
a progress themometer which encourages students to reflect using Bloom’s taxonomy
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This resource contains a student booklet for Year 6-7 Transition. This can be issued with during form time to help aid transition and/or is ideal for use with SEN/vulnerable students.
You can find my other transition resources here:
An editable plan template, suggestions and activities for transition: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12538651
Head of Year assembly: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12538622
Form Tutor Welcome Tutor Time Presentation and ice breakers: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12538640
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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 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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This is an assembly focused on anti-bullying. It covers a variety of topics including:
a link to a starter video from Pixar which begins to explore the treatment of those different to ourselves
defines bullying
exploration of words closely linked to the definition and those which are most powerful linked to bullying
exploration of the different types of bullying and what they look like
exploration how bullying makes people feel and the impact on others
an activity used in the assembly to encourage students to recognise how bullying may feel
provides the case study of Felix Alexander - who took his own life after being bullied, including a video interview with his mum Lucy - a very powerful video.
facts about bullying
how we can stop bullying
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This document contains a 3 page improvement plan for a year group.
This includes generic ideas for focus points of the year group: attendance, year group cohesion etc. as well as for planning assemblies and an interform competition.
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This assembly focuses on the concept of Random Acts of Kindness.
It focuses on the benefits of kindness and being kind to others, as well as how you can kind to one another.
It also includes a youtube link about the infectious nature of kindness - which really helps to illustrate the point about helping one another.
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