Welcome to the TF webinar:Balancing your personal and professional priorities

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Recap the example of a coaching wheel that was sent to you

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Balancing your personal and professional priorities

Today’s webinar should help you to:

• Reflect upon your current personal and professional priorities, and how these may change when you start the programme

• Give you a chance to hear from one of our current trainees or Ambassadors and how they have managed lifestyle changes

• Help you to focus on how to implement practical strategies before and during the programme to support your teaching preparation and success

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Agenda

- Welcome and temperature check

- Coaching wheel activity part 1

- Reflections

- Trainee insight

- Coaching wheel activity part 2

- Summarise and temperature check

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How are you feeling about starting on the Training Programme?

How are you feeling about balancing your priorities alongside the programme once you start in school in

September?

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Coaching wheel

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Current priorities in your life

Examples of priorities:

family, career, friends, health, finance, personal growth, career progression, spirituality, hobbies, social activities, voluntary activities

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Reflections

–Is it clear what your most important priorities are?

–Are there any surprises for you?

–Can you imagine how you might need to make some adjustments to certain priorities whilst on the Teach First training programme particularly in the first term?

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Trainee Insight

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Questions?

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Coaching wheel

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Top tips from current trainees

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Taking action!

Look at the coaching wheels. Think about practical strategies which you could implement now, or in September.

How could you maintain/change your ways of working and lifestyle currently for those important priorities?

Choose 3 areas to focus on and identify an action for each.

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Thanks for coming!

Any questions please contact:

London@teachfirst.org.uk