Both Teaching and
Support staff started the day together, before sessions involving support staff
in teams were introduced. In order to capture the feedback from these sessions,
we decided to use a model used to analyse culture from a strategic and human
resources point of view. The first model, shown below, takes the feedback and
captures what was said during the day using the model.
This was fine, but what did we want to change and how would
things look in an ideal Canons? The next attempt using the model tried to
capture the future and what it could look like (see below).
Next steps
This was fine as far as it went, but it was clear that we
needed to take this forward. We agreed that a small working group should look
to get some more information, to help address this vision and add some
information and detail. The working group met and suggested some next steps
based on the models and the feedback from the Inset days. These next steps
were:
- To research professional review/standards at other
schools looking at both materials and possible visits. The questions to be
asked were around what is best practice and do we need to adapt our procedures
in the light of our research? What can we learn about what other schools do for
staff effectiveness?
- To research professional review/standards in
wider world – the questions to be asked were around what is best practice and
do we need to adapt our procedures? What can we learn about what other
organisations do for staff effectiveness?
- To devise a questionnaire to go to support staff
(enlisting the support of our Research Advocate). This would provide a view
point from staff, to add to the ideas from the Inset Day, but this would
provide harder data.
- To review what being a leader of support staff
might entail – perhaps creating something like a skills matrix questionnaire
and something around establishing a Canons leadership standard.
We have now circulated the questionnaire and with a 60%
response rate have some hard data to interrogate further. We also have visits
underway, though we are interested to find any organisations in education and
beyond to help us, either as a venue for a visit or to provide research
information.
We will update this space!
