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)

View self-evaluation coaching wheel as a downloadable pdf. 84.4 KB

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.