 Hello everyone, I hope you're well and the five-minute research inquiry appraisal plan now a bit of a mouthful Look think performance management think top-down approaches. I want to go through this one idea in greater depth to give you some support in Managing line management difficult conversations supporting other trainee teachers whatever it might be and I'm just gonna move my Camera over here, and I just want to walk you through and step by step So I'm recording this in February and Various times of the year. We know that thousands of teachers up and down the country And are in one-to-one line management discussions mentoring meetings or performance management annual review meetings explaining why and Providing reams and reams of evidence to demonstrate how they perform and why they deserve a pay rise or recognition of their hard work And so some schools asked me how we can move away from performance related pay appraisal This is something I've been working on for a good 10 years or so and this resource offers some of the things that I've learned through my own Working performance management, I suppose my own research and looking at some of my doctoral techniques that I'm learning How we can blend all this together in a five-minute approach So think this template as a five-minute thinking plan Obviously the mechanics of doing this might take a bit longer I'm gonna try my best to kind keep this recording short as I can and so let's go to kind of step one So we've got this on the screen you know the Steven Kovie urgent important matrix and you know the habits are highly effective people essentially what we need to do here is Align our personal professional interests identify a key research Focus and then narrow the topic down into precise detail so that it's achievable to complete within one academic year So that's ultimately what we're aiming for at this stage and this is something you can do yourself or with a mentee or a line manager and we need to then narrow some definitions So we need to think about a good research question You know identify keywords use post it notes and then when we get those definitions consider how we Narrow this down so think instead of What I used to do approach my research from my inch deep mile wide perspective flip it We need to go inch wide and Maldi, which is a better way. So Sentence starters such as you know, how can we under what conditions? What is the best way? Will this make a difference to XYZ what strategies? What can we do so that? These are great ways to kind of narrow the focus and think about designing that research question Open-ended questions have a place they allow possibilities. You know avoiding yes and no type questions Maybe questions that begin with how or why or under what conditions and will it make a measurable difference to people learning? In the time that you've got are all very important kind of things to consider that time frame will know and The rhythm of the academic year. So we're trying to get things that work through the appraisal phases in your skills And in that next phase that we've got here. So obviously there should be line management time built in and Ideally aligned with whole school CPD. So there's opportunities to meet in smaller groups to share the things that you're finding So traditionally we might have questions where you're imposed the target from someone that line manage you line manages yourself Whereas things we can do instead that you flip it into a research inquiry or even look at your performance management policy and Move away from the the the linguistics of targets towards the word question We can just start to design research inquiry questions. So there are People that we are line management or people that we look after are more engaged in their performance and their appraisal because they've engineered their research inquiry some examples might include I'll give you some examples at one maybe wider year 12 Bangladesh students So there's a specific definition dropout of a to history after one year of studies Another one how does literacy support vulnerable students in the year 10 maths and how could the methods be rolled out further across the year group Another do assembly rewards so punctuality rewards for definition lead to better school attendance some research I found says suggests it actually does the opposite and another question Why do so many teachers get promoted in core subjects? Is that because there's more? Positions available more money available. So these things are interesting External research questions to ask things that we need to maybe consider in our own performance might not be that type of question So we've got to think of the purpose of a research question for line management for mentees for your own external research Purposes and then we can think about definitions and how it might be critiqued Let's move on. So then we want to think about What would be your initial research question before you kickstart the actual project? So I guess from this time frame, we'll be looking between the autumn term They've kind of former part of the autumn term to have this research question thought process in place So that we are ready to pitch the research question in greater detail and Obviously everything's got limitations It's critical that the process is initiated by the school itself the policies the people that are leading the line management discussions You know anything on paper is never as good as how it lives out in practice So those conditions of trust need to be established across the organization There's obviously privacy and safeguarding issues to consider but general pedagogical discussions should remain open Transparent if performance appraisal reviews, you know for rewarding teachers Is about kind of reaching aspirational goals rather than unrealistic goals. So that's Something to consider. So let me just pop back to Another couple of boxes here in this stage here in some other resources elsewhere We need to just think about the sample class and the control Class or the the sample conditions the control conditions. So it might be a document It might be a person. It might be a class. It might be an intervention technique So when we are thinking about sample and control, we have to consider Well, this is how we will always do it the control method and this is the sample technique will apply To see what the variations are So that's an important consideration think about those time frames again So box for how you can measure the data from sample and control those three windows to evaluate any difference Stage eight here. How are you going to gather the data? So whatever format that's going to look like, you know tally a tick list of kind of student outcomes There's many different ways you can do that and I've got lots of other suggestions on the site If you're interested I think by this point whether it's You know, typically it should be the middle of the academic year. We've got a final and clear research question The experiments the interventions are in place I'm just going to move my camera so you can see this box. In fact, you can pretty much see it anyway So let me just pop myself up too big over there and the final research question where you've got your exact definitions and the ideas are already living out in greater depth And then I guess things to consider is how to share the Practice the things that you found some great pieces of work I'll give a shout out to staff at your university academy. You've got a great document in terms of publishing anonymously What all staff support staff and teaching staff do for their research across the entire year It's well worth checking out and there are others that do this too But then creating a condition where teachers can come and celebrate and disseminate their findings That is just as important as doing the work itself as ever The starter point must be the ethics so safeguarding your children that you work with thinking about when you publish information How do you anonymize the reports when you're considering different interventions and controlling samples? How do you consider those ethics before you start? Then there's the evaluation so the reporting side of things So I've got a great document if you're interested get in touch. I'll share it with you that reference to staff at your university academy who've got a great kind of full document good hundred pages of all their different staff sharing their Reports and their work that they've done and then thinking about how they publish this on a kind of one page summary As an abstract of all the work that they've done through the year So this is a methodology behind each of these boxes I've got a whole stack of resources and techniques to support each of these phrase Phases So if you're interested in more Whether you're leading a difficult conversation Whether you're new to leadership whether you're line managing a colleague or whether you're mentoring a teacher new to the profession This you'll find is a good method for constructing conversations For a specific purpose whether it and in some respects you can also squeeze this down into Kind of half-termly line management discussions, but there's much more, but I'm going to leave things there This is just a little example of things that you can do There on the website if you want to find this and download this just go to the resources tab Um on the site, which is over here Type in the five minute research inquiry appraisal plan a bit of a mouthful probably should change that title um And yeah, there's a whole slide deck in there and the template. I've just walked through and I hope you find it useful If you've got any questions, you know where I am. Bye for now