The self-reflection tool in the Great Teaching Toolkit allows a teacher to assess their confidence in different aspects of a particular element or dimension. The surveys take just a few minutes to complete and are completely private to the teacher’s account unless they choose to share their results. Teachers will be prompted to complete a self-reflection at the beginning of a development cycle. Alternatively, they can be accessed through ‘My feedback tools’.
- Head to the ‘My feedback tools’ section of the platform, and select ‘Reflection tools’ under ‘Self-reflection and peer surveys’.
- Under ‘Start a new self-reflection survey’, select your chosen dimension or elementand then click ‘Begin reflection’.
- You’ll be asked to respond to a series of statements about your practice, indicating how strongly you agree or disagree. You don’t need to answer all at once – you can pause and resume later. You’ll be able to see your surveys ‘in progress’ and resume from where you got to.
- Once you have answered all questions and clicked ‘Finish Assessment’, your self-reflection survey results will appear under ‘Completed surveys’. Here you can view an interactive bar chart displaying your results. You also have the option to download a pdf of the results.
If you have completed the self- assessment before, you will have the option to view results from different dates on the same graph by selecting the boxes under ‘self-reflection’. If have a corresponding peer survey, then you will also be able to tick the ‘show peer feedback’ box, which will then display your colleague’s responses side by side for ease of comparison.