Hi team,
I would be interested to hear your feedback on Staff surveys, as it appears that our survey has this year become a platform for venting, which has becomes personal or unconstructive, it I can see that it has of course upset members of our team. When our staff do review on events and various other things in our school, we use the ‘keep’, ‘stop’ & ‘start’ exercise, but am not sure this is quite the same as the anonomous staff survey. What are other ways that you in your schools collect start feedback at that deeper survey level? Appreciate any ideas or thoughts on this one.
Kath
Hi Kath
I have always found surveys very subjective. You have those staff members who remain completely professional and who can give positive and constructive feedback very well in the context of the school BUT then you have those that consider a survey their opportunity to drag up everything negative and as you say have a vent (which always affects other people). I myself take the view that if they are venting in anonymously then they are not brave enough to actually own the comment!!! food for thought!
Hi team,
Like many of you, our teachers have their 5 CRt days per term, and this term we have allowed them to take one of their days at home, on the previso that they organise their duty to be covered if falling that day and also if any PLD or team meetings happening that afternoon that they need to be prepared to return for these. Having the one day at home also has helped with writing of reports, so this term this was greatly recieved. Unfortunately, several staff members didn’t organise cover, and said they couldn’t make meetings. So now that we are preparing for next term’s CRT schedule, I would be interested to hear what other schools are doing, in regards to this CRT day at home expectation or not??
Hi there Katherine
It’s a tricky one isn’t it. We have an expectation that teachers do work at school, however if things come up for them we are more than happy to accommodate where we are able to. Our CRT is run slightly differently as some of their days are incorporated into music, STEM and Te Reo release which means they only get a whole day or two throughout the term. I guess “trust” plays an important part in this. Also hard to do assessments when you are offsite. I sort of think that assessments need to be completed in CRT times if at all possible so there is less downtime when the kaiako is actually in the class and can be teaching. Vicky
We work our CRT so that they have 5 days per term. They all have to be on standby as they know that their release maybe pulled if we have no choice, but they can choose to come in late (be onsite by 10.30am) or leave early (1.30pm) providing there are no meetings as they can’t miss a meeting citing CRT. We also try to arrange that they are not on duty on a CRT day but I know this can be tricky!
Hi team…as you start engaging with this terms modules, this is where you can begin to share your reflections, observations or problems of practice. As people begin to make entries we encourage you to make comments, share insights, offer ideas etc. so we can start to build somewhat of an online professional community.
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Hi team,
I would be interested to hear your feedback on Staff surveys, as it appears that our survey has this year become a platform for venting, which has becomes personal or unconstructive, it I can see that it has of course upset members of our team. When our staff do review on events and various other things in our school, we use the ‘keep’, ‘stop’ & ‘start’ exercise, but am not sure this is quite the same as the anonomous staff survey. What are other ways that you in your schools collect start feedback at that deeper survey level? Appreciate any ideas or thoughts on this one.
Kath
Hi Kath
I have always found surveys very subjective. You have those staff members who remain completely professional and who can give positive and constructive feedback very well in the context of the school BUT then you have those that consider a survey their opportunity to drag up everything negative and as you say have a vent (which always affects other people). I myself take the view that if they are venting in anonymously then they are not brave enough to actually own the comment!!! food for thought!
Vicky
Hi team,
Like many of you, our teachers have their 5 CRt days per term, and this term we have allowed them to take one of their days at home, on the previso that they organise their duty to be covered if falling that day and also if any PLD or team meetings happening that afternoon that they need to be prepared to return for these. Having the one day at home also has helped with writing of reports, so this term this was greatly recieved. Unfortunately, several staff members didn’t organise cover, and said they couldn’t make meetings. So now that we are preparing for next term’s CRT schedule, I would be interested to hear what other schools are doing, in regards to this CRT day at home expectation or not??
Hi there Katherine
It’s a tricky one isn’t it. We have an expectation that teachers do work at school, however if things come up for them we are more than happy to accommodate where we are able to. Our CRT is run slightly differently as some of their days are incorporated into music, STEM and Te Reo release which means they only get a whole day or two throughout the term. I guess “trust” plays an important part in this. Also hard to do assessments when you are offsite. I sort of think that assessments need to be completed in CRT times if at all possible so there is less downtime when the kaiako is actually in the class and can be teaching. Vicky
Hi Katherine,
We work our CRT so that they have 5 days per term. They all have to be on standby as they know that their release maybe pulled if we have no choice, but they can choose to come in late (be onsite by 10.30am) or leave early (1.30pm) providing there are no meetings as they can’t miss a meeting citing CRT. We also try to arrange that they are not on duty on a CRT day but I know this can be tricky!
Hi team…as you start engaging with this terms modules, this is where you can begin to share your reflections, observations or problems of practice. As people begin to make entries we encourage you to make comments, share insights, offer ideas etc. so we can start to build somewhat of an online professional community.