Deputy Principal (Kelly Anderson)
Survey My Class
It's that time of year again, when we offer teaching staff the opportunity to survey their classes to get some feedback. We offer this twice during the year, in Term 2 and again in Term 4.
The process is simple. During the dates the survey is open (21 Nov – 2 Dec) you send the link to your students. They click on it and off they go. It is a good idea to actually give them some class time to complete it. They can use their iPads to do the survey.
The survey data for each individual teacher remains private to those teachers. The combined data of all staff is compiled into a report for the Executive Team, which is simply another piece of data used to inform our school improvement plans.
Participation is not compulsory, but it can be a useful process to do for your own professional development.
If you have any questions about the process, please contact Kelly on 78902.
Staff Wellbeing
Are you a Giver on the verge of exhaustion?
“The road to sustainable leadership” – Dr Marcia Devlin - Australian Educational Leader magazine Term 3 2022. Whilst this is about school leaders needing to be mindful of their giving nature, it really applies to all educators.
Key points:
- Current context – Covid disruption has exhausted everyone
- People working in education are usually givers
- Givers get exhausted if they don’t protect themselves
What to do:
- Find ways to give and keep giving, without exhausting your own energy
- Do more of what replenishes and energises you
- Say no to some things, so you can be available to say yes to the more important things, and
- Ensure that the benefits of saying yes and helping others outweigh the costs to you of doing so.
Staff Fatigue and Self Care – online PL – this session on the 16 November is being offered by Be You. It is free, but does require you to create an account with Be You before you can register.
Staff Wellbeing Committee
Lauren Dragon – School Psychologist – is leading the focus on staff wellbeing – she will be setting up a committee at the start of 2023, then with the committee she will use the staff survey data to determine key strategies for support, and then implement strategies put forward by staff. Please consider joining this committee next year.
Workload
Workload is often the main cause of staff stress or anxiety. Our school has a workload advisory committee, which was set up as part of our focus on Staff Wellbeing in our current business plan.
Workload Advisory submission link - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M5NWMXV