Completing your Final Report

The following information offers advice on how to complete each section of your Final Report.

Recommendation

It is essential that the report has one of the recommendation boxes marked and signed by your headteacher. While GTC Scotland grants full registration, it is the headteachers in schools who make the recommendation.

One of the following recommendations must be made:

full registration
extension to Provisional Registration
cancellation of Registration

Timetable

Primary teachers

On your timetable, you should indicate:

the class you taught
the blocks each day when you taught
the aspects of the curriculum taught

Secondary teachers

On your timetable, you should indicate:

the class and level of study in each period
the length of time allocated to one period (provide an average length if necessary)

Record of Teaching Service

It is important that the Council has a record of any periods of relevant teaching.

For those employed in a full-time continuous post it will simply be a case of recording the details on a termly basis.

For those employed in short-term contracts or supply posts it will be necessary to record the details of all service carried out. Hence an additional Record of Teaching Service may be required.

Record of Supporter Meetings

If you have had supporter meetings you should transfer from notes compiled:

the date of the meeting
a summary of the actions that you agreed to carry out following the meeting
the focus of the meeting. There should only be one or two clear key areas identified for each meeting

Both you and your supporter/mentor should sign that this is a true record of the meetings.

Record of Observed Teaching

You should only include details of planned observed sessions where the timing and focus of the observation has been agreed beforehand.

The following information should be transferred from feedback forms compiled at your Observed Teaching Sessions:

the date and time of the observed session (make sure that they are not always occurring at the same time/period in the day)
the focus of the session. There should be only one or two clear key focuses identified for each session.
the class and subject/level of study for the observed session
the strengths/areas for development which, although filled in by you, will consist of those comments that were identified by the observer of the session and passed on to you

Both you and your supporter/mentor should sign that this is a true record of the observed sessions.

Record of CPD

A title and date for each CPD experience undertaken should be recorded.

It is expected that each CPD experience should have only one key focus and, as such, will address only one area of the Standard.

The aim is to achieve a balance of experiences that cover all areas of the Standard for Full Registration.

There may be core CPD that you are obliged to undertake. It is also expected that your CPD record details other experiences, many undertaken as a result of targets and actions identified in your previous Professional Development Action Plan (PDAP).

The record table can also be used as a framework for CPD. You will be able to tell at-a-glance whether you are achieving a broad coverage of the areas of the Standard. It is worth seeing how you can fully utilise CPD experiences, for example following up in school a core CPD experience carried out by probation managers in local authorities.

The SFR, Key Strengths and Areas for Development

This will be completed by your headteacher in collaboration with your supporter, (if allocated). It is important that both strengths and areas for development are identified.

The areas for development should be of no surprise since they should have been identified in Observed Teaching Sessions.

Professional Development Action Plan (PDAP)

You should enter the agreed targets and actions that will form the basis of your future development.

This will be completed, in collaboration with you, by your headteacher or supporter, (if allocated).

Signing-off the Final Report

The last part of Final Report completion is sign-off.

By signing a Final Report, you are only indicating that you have read the report, not that you agree with the contents.

Should you not agree with the contents, you should write separately to us, detailing the reasons.