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 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 lesson centres on autumn as inspiration for a piece of creative/descriptive writing - specifically this lesson focuses on a high level sensory vocabulary.
It is a complete stand alone lesson, designed to be visually appealing and help immerse students in writing creatively about autumn.
The lesson also comes with a learning mat to take students through the lesson which should be printed on A3 paper.
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In this resource, we explore 10 questions you might be asked on a SENCo interview and 10 detailed possible answers. This resource is 7 pages long.
This is a complimentary resource to the set 1 and set 2 SENCo questions listed in my shop. It can be used in conjunction or on its own to help you prepare for interview.
We answer the questions:
Why are you interested in the role of SENCo?
What skills could you bring to our SENCO role?
Give us a summary of your understanding of the Code of Practice:
How would you use data to inform this role?
How would you demonstrate value for money in this role?
Tell us about your ability to work under pressure.
A parent arrives in reception angry about the support their child with SEN has received. What do you do?
How would you time manage as a SENCo?
A student with ADHD is struggling in their English lessons – they are not making expected progress and the teacher is challenged by their behaviour - how would you support the teacher to help the student?
Why have you chosen this school to apply to as SENCo?
Please note: whilst the questions are detailed and thorough, they are NOT a definitive list, and the answers are not exhaustive. You may want to select parts of the answers which apply best to your knowledge. You should also add to your answers using experiences of your own and include your learning from these experiences that you would take into the new role. You should never use generic answers in an interview setting. Always link your answers with what you know about the school and their priorities.
In this bundle, you will find 3 resources all of which are designed to help you practice and develop your understanding of analysing data in preparation for a Head of Year/Pastoral Leader interview. A frequent in tray task for these interviews is data analysis and improvement planning.
You will find:
2 x practice data task with hints and tips on how to complete
A detailed guide to analysing data as a Pastoral Leader
These 3 documents will give you a great way to develop your understanding of data and how to improve progress as Head of Year.
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In this bundle, you will find:
an application letter/supporting statement letter for Head of Department to help you write your perfect letter
3 sets of interview questions for the Head of Department role including 40+ questions you may be asked in the formal interview
a set of student panel questions - a frequent part of Head of Department interviews
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This resource includes an assembly or form time on consequence and responsibility - actions and choices.
This assembly includes a focus on:
a linking image starter task to think about consequence
situations in which there are actions and consequences
a discussion of the meaning of consequence - explicitly drawing on Newton’s Third Law, Butterfly Effect Theory and looking a the concept of karma.
the teenager brain and its understanding of consequences
responsibilities of students within school
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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 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 contains 3 pages of advice for new heads of year or heads of house.
This includes top tips for the role and answers to key questions which are frequently asked by new pastoral staff.
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In this resource, you will find 5 pages of guidance on writing supporting statements for teaching applications!
This includes:
Information on what the applications look like/why your supporting statement is important
10 detailed top tips on writing an amazing supporting statement
A 1.5 page template/example to help you write an amazing supporting statement
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This resources includes all three sets of interview question from my shop - this includes 45 questions you may be asked on a Head of Department/Faculty or Curriculum Area interview.
These are compiled from much research and experience of middle leadership.
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This resource is a ‘behaviour reflection board’. This worksheet can be used to encourage students to reflect on their behaviour and to consider influences on their behaviour, their dislikes and likes as well as their triggers and how the believe they are best motivated.
This is designed to be completed by students individually or in groups and students be used to help plan a course of action. It can be paired with a behaviour action plan to share with staff as well as a behaviour contract.
I’d love to know if you find this useful.
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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 includes approximately 3 lessons on the Ballad of Charlotte Dymond.
The lessons cover:
understanding the poem, comprehension and making predictions
an investigation style resource where students have to piece together what happened
quotation quest task
a link to a Cornwall article which discusses Dymond’s death.
exploration of narrative structure
storyboarding task to check understanding and discussion points around tension
a poem quiz
exploration of audience reaction to the poem
a transformation lesson; transforming into a film poster (this has links to media) including looking at font use and analysing example posters
This resource also includes a copy of the poem, a copy of resources in the powerpoint and a 15 question quiz on the poem also.
In this bundle you will find 5 resources:
an assistant SENDCo application letter/covering letter
2 sets of questions which may be asked at a SENCo interview
SENCo specific guidance on a prioritisation task in tray, including lots of top tips and an example for practice for a common task on interview
a general document on acing student panels (non-specific)
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In this bundle, you will find:
an application letter/supporting statement letter for Assistant/Deputy Head of Department to help you write your perfect letter
3 sets of interview questions for a department leadership role including 40+ questions you may be asked in the formal interview
a prioritisation in tray task for a department lead role - often a task for interview
a set of student panel questions - a frequent part of department lead interviews
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This 15-20 minutes assembly is centred on:
the definition of self esteem and confidence
how to identify low self esteem
how we can affect other people’s self worth and confidence directly or indirectly
how we can support someone to be more confident
encourage students to be more confident in themselves
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This bundle includes 10 resources which are designed to support to professional development and improvement of Heads of Year and/or Pastoral Leaders.
My e-booklet 40 Ideas for Heads of Year on rewards and behaviour and attendance
My 2nd e-booklet on 40 Ideas on Leading Your Team and Working Across School
3 sets of professional development courses which can be taken for free
A PDF guide on how to analyse data
A PDF guide on how to support high ability learners as HOY
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This brand new resource is a booklet which contains 40 ideas for Heads of Year on leading your tutor team, working across school and working outside of school.
It contains 49 pages and lots of great ideas.
This is booklet 2 of a series.
You can find booklet 1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/40-ideas-for-heads-of-year-rewards-behaviour-attendance-booklet-resource-development-12393889
There will also be more booklets coming out over the next few months.
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In this resource you will find guidance on prioritisation in tray task. This guidance goes through the purpose of an in tray like this, including why they’re used, how to ace them and things to avoid!
This document also provides an example prioritisation task for you to practice prior to the interview.
Please note: this resource does include a worked example of the answers but this order is without justification - this is because there is no set correct answers for a priorisation task - you only need to make informed and educated decisions and justify your answers clearly. Your answers may be different to the ones on the template - but this does not make them incorrect as long as you clearly and rationally justified your answers.