How will this help me?

Traditionally, ‘RAG’ stands for Red Amber and Green - as in traffic lights and is a well-established and effective approach. Our version has two additional stages to allow you to give a thoughtful and specific response to the prompt questions. It allows you to judge reasonably quickly how you think you are doing and to indicate this by selecting:

Red = Never

Red/Amber = Rarely

Amber = Sometimes

Amber/Green = Often

Green = Always

This RAG tool will help you to evaluate how you are doing by giving you relevant questions to focus your thinking about a particular standard. It also gives you some real examples to help you visualise what the standard looks like in practice.

You will find the tool useful personally to:

gauge how you feel about your own development
consider where you are now and where you would like to be
discuss your development goals with your mentor or colleague
plan your development actions
review your development over time.

You can also use the tool as a team. For example:

your leadership team might use the tool in team discussions to help focus on the quality and effectiveness of leadership in your school
your teaching teams might use the tool to stimulate thinking about where and how to improve the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom.

Using the Standards to Reflect on your Teaching and Leadership

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