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 first BACK TO SCHOOL bundle, you will find resources perfect for return to lessons and the new academic year.
This includes:
10 positive postcards; back and front and using motivational and rewarding quotes
1 x colourful weekly desk organiser pages
a CPD tracker for tracking your professional development and learning
a lesson plan and evaluation pro forma
4 assessment for learning plenaries
a class tracker including sheets for class data, detentions, assessment, interventions and homework
10 colourful classroom labels for your storage and trays
a set of ice breaker activities for meeting new groups on your timetable
a 6 page PDF of guidance for meeting a new group
a bank of 60 easy use plenaries
a reward stamper for positive student behaviour
a success lesson for setting expectations
a summer holiday workpack full of activities to encourage students to reflect on their summer holidays
a guide to making your own reward scratch cards to use in your lessons
3 x PDFs of collated links to free CPD opportunities ready to help you develop professionally!
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In this bundle, you will find 3 resources:
30+ page literacy work pack - a great resource pack for form times and for regular literacy slots
20 literacy activities - full of small literacy tasks which can be used during form time
12 weekly spelling tests
8 week numeracy challenge - 8 weeks worth of numeracy challenges for form time
literacy sessions which can be used to support developing literacy during form time (approx. content for 10 form times plus short starter style tasks and more spelling tests
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In this bundle you will find 8 form time resources which contain over 60 different form activities/resources.
This includes literacy and numeracy tasks, mindset and attitudes sessions as well learning to learn sessions, sessions on organisational skills and designing your own school as well as sessions on what makes a great learner.
Specifically this bundle includes:
A ‘what makes a great learner?’ which explores growth mindset and how to learn at your best
20 SPag activity tasks which can be used in form time
A successful school session exploring what makes a great school and expectations of learners
A form time numeracy challenge which includes 8 weeks of numeracy content
A pastoral form time booklet with 34 different form time tasks
A 20 page literacy booklet which can be used in form time
Sessions on learning to learn including a focus on memory and organisation
12 weekly spelling tests
a growth mindset form time
content for 10 literacy based sessions for form time including spelling tests
Perfect for form times!
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This is a massive bundle of resources for a Head or Head of House.
This is bundle 1 of 2.
Bundle 2 can be found: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/head-of-year-head-of-house-pastoral-bundle-2-12396623.
Please note: these are different bundles and contain different resources. This means you can buy both bundles for a complete or can buy which ever of the two is best suited for your needs.
This first bundle includes:
7 form time sessions including on growth mindset, organisational skills, creating your own school, what a successful school and great learners might look like
2 literacy/numeracy tasks/challenges for form time and 1 30 page literacy booklet
8 assemblies ready to use assemblies on: charity, rumours and gossiping, random acts of kindness, raising aspiration, the danger of violence in schools, LGBT, technology awarness, confidence and self esteem
2 PDFs ‘40 Ideas for Heads of Year’ on attendance, rewards, behaviour, leading your team and working with external partners
Remember: you can find bundle 2 here: www.tes.com/teaching-resource/head-of-year-head-of-house-pastoral-bundle-2-12396623
In this bundle, you will find resources to help support you in a teaching interview.
This includes:
5 pages of guidance on writing an amazing application supporting statement including 10 top tips and a letter template
3 sets of questions you are likely to be asked on a teaching interview including 50+ questions which may come up + another set of 45 questions which may come up on a teaching interview (note: there may be some duplication of questions)
guidance on a teaching prioritisation in tray task - this goes through the purpose of an in tray like this, including why they’re used, how to ace them and things to avoid!
a set of student panel questions and advice on how to ace student panels, a common activity on teaching interviews
guidance on interview visits and questions you should ask to find out information about your chosen school
3 pages of guidance on creating a great interview lesson
plus, 15 questions to ask at the end of your formal interview which will demonstrate thoughtfulness and confidence
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In this 5 page resource, I take you through things to consider when designing a successful ‘goldfish bowl’ activity to use on an interview for middle and senior leadership.
This resource outlines what a ‘goldfish bowl’ is, the potential challenges of using this type of assessment and provides a guide on how to design an effective activity for your interview.
This resource also includes an editable observation template for use during goldfish bowl interview activities.
This resource has been designed using thorough research and experience of gold fish bowls on interviews.
Please note: this is not an exhaustive list and all activities should be tailored to your school context.
This resource contains a 16 slide presentation for form tutors to use to introduce themselves and their expectations to their form during transition.
This includes:
a welcome slide with a link to positive music to use as an introduction to form time
a ‘meet your form’ starter where students find out information about someone else
‘who am I?’ form tutor introduction slide
‘what does a form tutor do?’ discussion and slide
‘form rules and expectations’ slides
a ‘find someone who’ bingo get to know your form activity
an all about me worksheet task
a target task for students to set themselves 5 targets
a 5 minute embedded video from BBC about having a positive mindset
3 blank slides for information from your school
a form tutor checklist
a final task for students to share adjectives about themselves
This resource also includes a PDF of over 15 different ice breaker activities which form tutors can use to encourage their form to get to know each other.
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