Who is this template for?
This template is designed for teachers in any setting who wish to take a proactive and meaningful role in their own professional development, appraisal, and career growth.
Why use this template?
This template transforms performance management from a top-down exercise into a personal journey of reflection and growth. It provides a clear, confidential space to evaluate your practice, gather evidence of your impact, and create a targeted plan for your development.
- Empower Your Professional Growth: Take ownership of your performance management through structured, meaningful reflection that helps you identify your strengths and pinpoint areas for development with clarity and confidence.
- Build a Rich Evidence Base: Move beyond anecdotal recall. Easily attach lesson plans, examples of pupil work, observation feedback, or CPD certificates to your judgements, creating a robust portfolio for appraisal discussions.
- Facilitate Meaningful Professional Dialogue: Arrive at performance management meetings fully prepared. Your abacus provides a clear, organised summary of your reflections, helping to facilitate a supportive, forward-looking conversation with your line manager.
- Create Targeted and Realistic Action Plans: The built-in analysis of ‘helping’ and ‘hindering’ factors helps you understand what's really driving your success, leading to smarter, more effective goals for your CPD.
- Focus on Wellbeing: With a dedicated area for 'My Well-being', this template encourages a holistic view of professional life, ensuring that personal sustainability is a core part of your growth plan.
How does it work?
This template uses the standard, intuitive iAbacus process: make a judgement, verify it against the criteria, provide your evidence, analyse the helping and hindering factors, and build your action plan. The evaluation is structured around three key areas of your professional life:
- My Teaching
- My Leadership
- My Well-being
Gaining Strategic Insight
A school leader can overlay the self-review abacuses from multiple teachers to gain a powerful strategic overview. This creates an instant visual 'heat map' of professional practice across the school, highlighting collective strengths and identifying common development needs. This insight allows leaders to plan more targeted, efficient, and impactful CPD for the whole staff.
Clear, Professional Reporting
With a single click, your self-review can be exported as a polished PDF report. This document serves as a perfect foundation for a performance management review, providing your line manager or appraiser with a rich, organised summary of your reflections and evidence. It moves the conversation beyond simple target-setting to a meaningful professional dialogue about your growth, impact, and career aspirations.
How to Get Started
New to iAbacus? Discover how this template can support your improvement strategy. Book a personalised demo or start a free trial to explore the full platform. Visit www.iabacus.com to learn more.
Already a subscriber? You can find this template in the template library within your iAbacus account. Simply log in, create a new abacus, and select it from the list to get started.
