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📝 Weekly Report #2

👨‍🏫 Teaching:

It's been great to be back teaching again this week and seeing my students again. I'm also super happy that the new initiatives we have implemented into our department are up and running and have already reduced my workload, so I am looking forward to hearing how the rest of the department have found it. I found a really useful resource by Nathan Day, @nathanday314, where he has put together the complete CIMT textbooks on to one pdf. I love CIMT resources and go to them regularly so this has been a big time saver. Check out his tweet here. 

🔊 Listen:

High performance podcast with Paul McGinley. Paul is a European tour golfer, where he has also captained team Europe. He speaks about empowering others to be the best they can be and helping them to express themselves. Its not about being best but making your team the best. Great one for middle leaders and developing your team's. Have a listen here.

📚 Read:

There's been lots of great blog posts about the start of the year and seeing routines etc but I wanted to highlight a Twitter thread by Sam Strickland. A real feel good thread where his school has had some really positive feedback from OFSTED. In the thread he talks about the changes he and his team have implemented to be successful. Check it out here. 

📺 Watch:

This week's video gives some advice on how to deal with challenging behaviour in the classroom. I had a tough time in my training and NQT year so here is some advice I would give to myself if I could go back in time. Dealing with Challenging Behaviour: Advice to my NQT self

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