Induction
8. The coaching wheel for professional recognition
A baseline self-evaluation coaching wheel is a valuable tool for exploring your current position and helping you to critically reflect on yourself as a professional and your practice. For more details see GTCS: using a coaching wheel.
Self-evaluation should help you to:
reflect on what you have done
think about what you might do next
consider your own progress and development
understand your professional practice, your professional learning and the impact of this on your thinking, professional actions, those you work with and/or support, and the pupils and their learning.
Here is an example of a completed self-evaluation coaching wheel
(GTCS, 2012)
The spokes on the self-evaluation wheel above are adapted from the GTCS’s Self-evaluation Wheel: Professional Actions in Career-long Professional Learning to include the professional actions relating specifically to pedagogy, learning and subject knowledge and curriculum and assessment from the Standard for Career-long Professional Learning (GTCS, 2012).
A coaching wheel may help you create clarity about the areas of the standard you wish to focus on, and to perform a simple gap analysis relating to where you are now and where you would like to be.