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 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 bundle is a collection of very popular resources which I have collated over the three times I have completed transition as a Head of Year. These have all recently been re-vamped!
The bundle includes:
• 1 x word document containing details of the plans for the induction day
• 1 x PPT for the ‘writing task’ on abandoned places; this provides a baseline for teachers in terms of writing and helps form tutors get a feel for the ability of students
• 1 x learning mat to match the writing task on abandoned places
• 1 x student transition booklet which students can be issued with during form time to help aid transition
• 1 x instructions for using the ‘shields’ or coat of arms; these are used during form time to help students bond and create a sense of community in their forms
• 1 x shield templates
• 1 x tour quiz for students to complete as they have their tour around school
• 1 x PPT for tutors to deliver in their first interactions with students
• 1 x over 15 ice breaker activities which can be used with forms
• 1 x student panel question to gather feedback from transition
• 1 x PPT for your first assembly with Year 7
•1 x transition rewards assembly
• 1 ‘design your own school’ form time for tutors to deliver or could be used as part of transition
In the role of head of year or head of house, perhaps one of the most confusing things I found was wrapping my head around the various different abbreviations and acronyms.
As such, I thought it would be useful to compile the ones that are most common into one PDF.
Please note, these are not exhaustive - they are the most commmon ones in my experience.
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In this resource, you will find 4 different styles of classroom labels. This file is as a PDF. The styles include: rainbow polka dots, green and purple chevrons, light blue and purple chevrons, and green geometric/white geometric styles.
Each set includes 20 labels.
The labels include:
pencils
coloured pencils
homework tray
rulers
sharpeners
lined paper
coloured paper
positive
negatives
postcards home
student of the week
And many more!
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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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A collection of editable certificate templates I have used in the course of being a Head of Year. These templates were not originally mine, but I have edited them to suit my purposes.
Hopefully they’ll be useful to you also.
The collection includes:
1 x attendance certificate
1 x form tutor certificate
1 x improved behaviour certificate
1 x star student certificate
1 x student of the year certificate
1 x student of the half term
1 x most academic progress certificate
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This resource is an example form time rota which includes the daily tasks tutors should be completing and a reminder of expectations for tutors in each form time.
It should be used flexible and assembly can switched to a different day depending on your school.
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In this resource you will find an editable document of templates for making your own scratch cards for rewards! You will also find the guide for how to make these and where you can buy the stickers to help you make them too.
These are great for use as a motivational tool and are excellent to reward students in an engaging and different way.
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This resource is a list of FREE Open University courses which are useful for staff. These courses are not mine - they are from Open University. I have simply compiled the list.
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This resources is a compiled list of FREE courses and CPD opportunites which can be found on Future Learn.
These are not my courses - I have simply compiled a list of the websites for development.
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This resource is a compiled list of FREE courses and CPD opportunites which can be found from Free Online Courses, funded by the Funding and Skills Agency.
These are not my courses - I have simply compiled a list of the websites for development.
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This resource is a questionnaire/quiz designed to be used to get to know a new or existing team. For example, a department team or tutor team.
It consists of 20 questions - ranging from about questions about staff interests and hobbies to questions which help gather feedback on strengths, preferred methods and ideas for the focus of the student group.
This is a fantastic way to connect with your team and a great way to begin involving your team in discussion and decision making.
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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 resources includes the 5000 word write up for my NQPSL project which focused on an improvement plan for the numeracy and literacy catch up provision within my school.
It scored 26/28.
I spent a long time ensuring I effectively referenced all of the assessment strands as well as including lots of good research for leadership through the write up.
Ultimately, this took many hours to pull together!!
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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 contains 4 pdfs of desk planners - each with a different motivational quote.
This are designed to be printed in A3 - but can be used in A4 also.
These have been created with the role of Head of Year in mind and using my experience of the role.
There is space for:
a to do list - urgent and for later
a phone call list s
space to quick plan lessons for the current day and the following
space for weekly planning
a ‘remember to print section’
Please let me know if you find these useful.
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This resource includes three sessions on learning to learn skills including:
-Memory and planning skills
-Organisational skills
-Growth mindset and resilience skills
This is great for use during form time or PSHE skills.
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In this document you will find an attendance action plan. This includes split the year group into waves and plan actions for each wave of poor attendance.
It includes the actions that should be taken from 100% attendance-90% and includes priorities to be completed by a pastoral leader. It also includes a comment about monitoring and how attendance should be monitored alongside this plan.
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This resource was created for KS4 students - specifically those getting ready for mocks or final exams.
The session focuses on challenging myths and misconceptions about revision. Each task centres around dispelling different myths and references a paralymic sportsman to encourage students to reflect on the myths they use to tell themselves they can’t revise effectively.
This resource also looks at ‘the curve of forgetting’ and the importance of staged revision. It also explores revision environment, challenges the perception that students don’t need to plan revision, and the ideas of ‘highlighting notes’ counting as revision. Finally, it asks students to review their learning and create a plan for how to ‘target’ their revision. It also has an extension task to create a success criteria for revising.
This powerpoint also comes with a learning mat which can be used in the sessions. Perfect for an isolated lessons on revision.
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