You may use this tool to rate yourself against the Professional Standards for Teachers and Trainers in Education and Training (England). The standards are:
Professional skills
Professional values and attributes
Professional knowledge and understanding
Start by choosing a date for your assessment from the date picker (above and right).
Rate yourself against each area using the sliders.
Add comments if you wish in order to support your assessment.
At the end you can print a summary that includes charts that display your self-assessed skills.
Note: This version of the self-assessment tool does not save your responses. A version that saves your choices is available in the Professional Standards – Self Assessment course on foundationonline.org.uk
Professional values and attributes: Developing your own judgement of what works and does not work in your teaching and training
How effective are you at reflecting on what works best in your teaching and learning to meet the diverse needs of learners?
How effective are you at evaluating and challenging your practice, values and beliefs?
How effective are you at inspiring, motivating and raising aspirations of learners through your enthusiasm and knowledge?
How creative and innovative are you in selecting and adapting strategies to help learners to learn?
How much do you value and promote social and cultural diversity, equality of opportunity and inclusion?
How effective are you at building positive and collaborative relationships with colleagues and learners?
Professional knowledge and understanding: Developing deep and critically informed knowledge and understanding in theory and practice
How effective are you at maintaining and updating knowledge of your subject and/or vocational area?
How effective are you at maintaining and updating your knowledge of educational research to develop evidence-based practice?
How effective are you at applying theoretical understanding of effective practice in teaching, learning and assessment drawing on research and other evidence?
How effective are you at evaluating your practice with others and assessing its impact on learning?
How effective are you at managing and promoting positive learner behaviour?
How well do you understand the teaching and professional role and your responsibilities?
Professional skills : Developing your expertise and skills to ensure the best outcomes for learners
How effective are you at motivating and inspiring learners to promote achievement and develop their skills to enable progression?
How effective are you at planning and delivering effective learning programmes for diverse groups or individuals in a safe and inclusive environment?
How effective are you at promoting the benefits of technology and support learners in its use?
How effective are you at addressing the mathematics and English needs of learners and working creatively to overcome individual barriers to learning?
How effective are you at enabling learners to share responsibility for their own learning and assessment, setting goals that stretch and challenge?
How effective are you at applying appropriate and fair methods of assessment and providing constructive and timely feedback to support progression and achievement?
How effective are you at maintaining and updating your teaching and training expertise and vocational skills through collaboration with employers?
How effective are you contributing to organisational development and quality improvement through collaboration with others?
Professional values and attributes: Developing your own judgement of what works and does not work in your teaching and training
Professional knowledge and understanding: Developing deep and critically informed knowledge and understanding in theory and practice
Professional skills : Developing your expertise and skills to ensure the best outcomes for learners