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I still haven’t made up my mind,” Bill repeated each time anyone asked him about the girl. “She can’t stay here, so I’ll have to think of another solution.” As he continued to delay making up his mind, spring turned into summer. Helen Tupper: I thought it was interesting as well. It's almost like it's a worry thinking, "What are they thinking about me? Are they think that I'm not doing the work?" just because they're maybe not with people as much, so some of that fear creeps in more.

Nope,” she replied. “You never yell at me. You gave me all this delicious food. I’m grateful for those things. You seem like a good person.” So, in this spirit of positive reinforcement, I want to notice the phenomenal achievements of the education sector over the past 18 months. I am drawing attention to the amazing knowledge, skills and strategies shown by teachers and leaders in schools in the most challenging of circumstances.

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The above is from the Afterburner blog, on the Pros of Debriefs (because they couldn’t think of any cons). We use the second conditional to talk about the possible result of an imagined situation in the present or future. An effective way to encourage children to reflect on their learning is through using reflective learning resources with prompts, such as our What Went Well Even Better If Worksheet.

It is clear that the latter sentence " It would be better if you drank all the water" is referred to an imagined situation ( if you drank all the water) and the possible result of this situation ( It would be better.) Whilst working at BAE Systems I was in awe of our client’s meeting process: Without fail, every meeting ended at 55 minutes past the hour. The final five minutes were dedicated to flip-charting 1) “what went well” and 2) what could be improved (“even better if…”), with contributions required from all team members at all levels. What will we focus on for the next period? It’s critical to choose only one or two areas of focus. To prioritize you can vote (dot voting) for the above items. There are always more things that we’d like to improve than we can focus on. Focusing on less is key (just like with product goals/initiatives!).Instead of saying, “Well that was crap and there’s nothing you can do about it,” now you’ve got something that says, “Alright, I need to find a simpler story because this point is strong.” By pairing those things you’re always pairing the positive with a positive action and that is how to get better at getting better. I think the closest I've ever got to having really effective conversations in this area has also been about taking accountability and ownership myself to say, "Well, I've been considering this and I was wondering about maybe trying out doing something different", or I would often suggest some actions that I might do and then almost try and prompt my manager to say, "Oh, you know" and then, "Are there any other ideas you've got?" That was as well, I think it's maybe a safer way to figure out where your manager is, how they respond, especially if you're not sure.

systems that reflect and embrace the values of truly developmental and highly reflective professional learning Here at EBI, we provide a range of services to support school development including teacher training, specialist recruitment, EAL and home-language support, as well as access to a range of therapy practitioners.

A good job well done

What went badly (you want to stop doing these things, if possible, or concentrate on doing them better) A couple of years ago, I was invited by one of my company’s managers to visit one prospect (possible customer). This manager had just joined our organization and it was a good occasion to start building our relationship, as well as to do business together.