The purpose of this page is simply to ask questions…to take time to reflect on your values, and how those values inform your practice.
• What are the values that you would like your pupils to have? How do you model these values?
• What are the most positive memories you have of your own schooling?
• How would you like pupils to describe you?
• What are the ways in which you let children and young people know that you value them?
• What opportunities do less academic pupils have to raise their self-esteem?
• How do you recognise children who may be having emotional difficulties?
• Why do you think some children behave poorly? What do you think could help them?
• Think of a pupil with challenging behaviour. How do you think they would say school makes them feel? What could make this more positive?
• If you were going to have every bit of work you did monitored, would you find some types of feedback more helpful than others?
• How does it feel to take a test knowing that most people will do better than you? What can we do to minimise stigmatisation.
• Name ten things that school does that lowers self-esteem for some children. Are they necessary?