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2015 Appraisal

By Anonymous

December 2015

2015 Appraisal...reflections from myself and my team leader

It is wonderful to stand back and re-assess my teaching at this time of year. The key highlights from my own thinking and my team leader:

Strengths (keep making time and finding opportunity for these!)
* Dedication and persistence e.g. when working with significant behaviours
* Learning - continually seeking new insight (via online resources, University and colleagues) has helped me extensively this year. Not only have I learnt new strategies, programmes and found support to face challenges, I have found that the learning itself has been incredibly energising. 
* Listening to the students - I have made more time to focus on the students' ideas this year. Open ended questions, conversations and observations has helped me to see and build on their expertise and questions, e.g. by starting a compost group
* Seeking advice from colleagues more, and being open and honest about my successes and challenges
* Finding and providing opportunities for student roles & leadership


New goals for 2016:
* Maintain and build on relationships with my team from this year, and form open, effective relationships with the New Entrant team in 2016
* Build and maintain relationships with parents, and bring culture into the classroom more
* Continue supporting Wellbeing across the whole school, and possibly leading a review using this MOE tool  http://www.wellbeingatschool.org.nz/ 


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