Induction

8. The coaching wheel for professional recognition

8.1 Working towards Professional Recognition

To begin working towards Professional Recognition:

  1. Download the coaching wheel for professional actions in career-long professional learning from the GTCS website. Also, download this blank wheel template to complete with your own reflections.

Consider your current practice in teaching Scots language and culture, and plot where you are on each spoke of the coaching wheel. Think about where you might gauge yourself on the wheel and mark the number that matches your thoughts with a dot:

  • 0 = really not confident/lots of areas to develop or work on;
  • 10 = feel very confident/accomplished in this area.
Think about 'why' you place yourself on that point on the scale. You may want to make some notes on the side.

  1. Now select an area of the coaching wheel to reflect on your practice. You can use the table on page 2 of the PDF to help you with your reflections for completing the coaching wheel activity.

  1. Looking at your completed coaching wheel, reflect on the following questions:

  • What do I notice?
  • What stands out?
  • What's the gap?
  • What’s my priority?
  • What’s most important?
  • What’s a key strength?
  • How might these areas impact on each other?

This provides a pre-programme baseline of your current practice in Scots language education and areas for development.

Your coaching wheel is for your own information, you are not required to share it with your pedagogy tutor at this time. You will revisit this coaching wheel in Unit 7 of the programme to evaluate your progress and development over the period of the course.



Reference

General Teaching Council Scotland (2021) Standard for Career-long Professional Learning. Available at: http://www.gtcs.org.uk/web/FILES/Professional-Standards-2021/2021-Standard-for-Career-Long-Professional-Learning.pdf (accessed 26 August 2024)