20 ideas for Groups you could create

Save time

Increase the impact of your projects

Drive whole school improvement

Recordstaffmeetings

1.

Record your staff meetings and

share them into a Group along with

minutes and actions so that anyone

who didn’t make it on the day can

catch up later.

2.

Internal training sessions Film these and make them available to everyone

across the school via a Group. Use this to

disseminate training resources across the

wider staff and everyone can go back for a

refresher when needed.

3.

Share practice with your department

Share subject specific resources

and video examples of teaching and

learning into a Group just for your

department team.

Capture governors’ meetings

4.

Capture governors’ meetings and create a

Group to keep a record of them and the

accompanying minutes. Your governors

can revisit them when needed or catch up

on meetings they’ve missed.

Help staff induction

5.

Create a Group for new staff

where they can get a sense of the

school they’re joining by accessing

videos and resources that will help

with their induction.

6.

Encourage NQTs

If you have lots of newly qualified

teachers, give them a space to collaborate

and share their experiences, provide

mentoring support and resources to help

them excel in their first year.

7.

Support trainees

Bring all of your student teachers together, share

examples of specific teaching strategies with

them and point them to relevant resources that

will help their growth. You could even invite their

university tutors to the Group to support the link

between theory and practice.

Celebrate excellence

8.

Root out great teaching in your school

and encourage staff to share snippets of

their favourite T&L moments. This is a

brilliant way of celebrating what goes on in

classrooms, creating a shared vision and

gets teachers talking more about teaching!

Professional learning communities

9.

If you’re part of a PLC in your school, be

it 3 members of staff or 25, you could

create a Group to share practice,

resources and ideas on your particular

community focus.

10.

Whole school priorities

Check out the Group Store

to see if there are any resources or

courses that could support you with

your priorities.Are you focused on developing Growth

Mindset learners, teacher feedback or

questioning? Whatever your priorities, create

a Group to provide background research, links

to useful resources and examples of what this

looks like in your school.

11.

Save time in lesson study

Are you doing Lesson Study? Save time doing in-

class observations by filming your study lessons, share

them into a Group and keep your research together

in one place alongside video resources. Once you’ve

completed your Lesson Study you could even open the

Group up to the wider school to share your findings.

12.

Ease pupil transition If your local primary schools (or secondary if you’re

a primary) have IRIS Connect, create a Group

to give year 7 teachers an insight into their new

students and give year 6 teachers an insight into

what they’re preparing their students for.

Support EAL across the schoolDo you have successful strategies for

supporting students who have English

as a second language? Get other

lead practitioners in this area on board

to provide a resource for the rest of the

team through an EAL Group. 13.

ShareSEN strategiesBring your SEN specialists into one

place to share successful strategies

for supporting SEN pupil learning. Create

examples and make them available to all

of the staff at the click of a button.

14.

Collaborateoverdistance

If you’re part of a local federation, an

academy trust or teaching school,

why not create a Group to share

practice with colleagues over distance

on a particular area?

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Behaviour management

Are there teachers in your school that

are particularly great at behaviour

management? Create a Group to share

strategies and ‘what works’, to support the

rest of your colleagues.

John Bayley’s Behaviour

Management Group

to access additional information and

advice from the UK’s behaviour guru.

You could also join

17.

AfL

Build up a bank of successful AfL strategies

that you’ve used in your classroom or across

your school. You could subscribe to the T&L

Essentials Group to find research and examples

that will help you put theory into practice.

18.

Effective learner behaviours

Join the SSAT’s Effective Learner

Behaviours Group to get all of the theory.

Then create your own Group to reflect on,

analyse and share what effective learner

behaviours look like in your school.

19.

Leadership development

Create a Group for aspiring leaders within

the school to provide advice, resources

and video examples that will help with

their career progression.

20.

Action research

Gather your research and evidence in one

place, build this over time to create a research

hub that’s accessible to you and your fellow

researchers. Open this up to your wider

community to make your findings visible to

your colleagues.

What are you waiting for? Create a Group today.

Click here for more info on how to create a group.