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    Cambridge Personal Styles Questionnaire® (CPSQ) for teachers
    Using your report

    • The resources on this page are designed to be used alongside your CPSQ for teachers report.

      If you haven't yet taken the questionnaire, we highly recommend you do that. Read about it here and view a sample report. Ask your Cambridge coordinator to order it and set it up for you via the School Support Hub - under Extra Services.)

    • Personal Styles

    • CPSQ for teachers identifies behaviours that relate to your teaching career. To understand how your personal styles of behaving might influence your participation in a teaching career, we interpret your responses against seven professional competencies. These are:

      • Caring and compassion   Caring and compassion
      • Coping with demands   Coping with demands
      • Person-centred communication   Person-centred communication
      • Working well with others   Working well with others
      • Professional practice   Professional practice
      • Self-management   Self-management
      • Engagement with learning    Engagement with learning

    • How to use the resources



    • We are developing materials to support effective use of the CPSQ for teachers reports. Some can be used across the professional competencies while others are specific to a professional competency. We have started with Coping with demands.

      • Use them on your own, with your teaching mentor, or as part of a group activity with other teachers.
      • There is no time limit to your access to the resources.
      • Access the resources online or offline. Download and print them or you add them to your school records or LMS. You'll often see a Word or PDF icon below an activity and this is a version of the resource you can download.
      • Add your responses and reflections by writing or typing and then storing them in hard copy or electronically. You do not log in and save responses on this site.
      • Importantly, there is no expectation from Cambridge that you will work through and complete everything we have provided here (although if you want to that is great!). The decisions and expectations on this will be between you and your school. 




      • Caring and compassion
        Caring and compassion


      • Coping with demands
        Coping with demands


      • Person-centred communication
        Person-centred communication


      • Working well with others
        Working well with others


      • Professional practice
        Professional practice


      • Self-management
        Self-management


      • Engagement with learning
        Engagement with learning



      Additional resources
      Additional resources from Cambridge


    • Resource: Spark Questions


      For this activity, note down your answers to the following questions:


      Spark questions

      • Which competency areas are the most important for your current job?

      • How accurate is your feedback for these competencies?

      • Where are your personal style strengths (Positive points)?

      • Where are your areas for improvement?

      • Where are you doing okay (Neutral points), but perhaps could do better?

      • Do you want to build on your report and set personal goals?

      • How might you use this information to think about your development?

      • Are there any barriers to getting this development?




    • Resource: Life Wheel


      The Life Wheel is a useful tool to help to think about how we feel about different aspects of our lives.  All the aspects listed are important for our happiness in life. 

      The activity is for your own personal use and reflection. It's a really good way of seeing how balanced things are for you right now. Sometimes seeing a visual representation of our lives can be helpful for spotting where there might be an issue, perhaps that you are not even aware of.

      • Complete your own version of the Life Wheel.
      • Shade in the sections of the circle towards the middle to indicate how content you are with that aspect of your life. For example, if you are happy with your career, shade the section towards the centre. If you are happy with your family relationships, and feel even more happy with them than your career, shade closer the the centre than for the career section. In the end you will have an snapshot of how you are feeling with all these aspects of your life.
      • Review and reflect on your shading. Think about the sections where you've said you're very content. Why is that? What about the areas that are you have shaded less? What is going on there?
      • Finally, think about your priorities. How can you shade more of the wheel? Which sections would you like to focus on? What actions could help you achieve that?

    • Life Wheel
      Life Wheel - click to view full screen



    • Resource: Vocabulary Wheel

      This activity can work well with a colleague who has also taken CPSQ for teachers. Use the Vocabulary wheel to help each other reflect verbally to your reactions to the CPSQ statements and scores.


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      Vocabulary Wheel - click to view full screen