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Use case
Damen middle school
Information
- SMB
- Solution used: Situation-based supervision
- Company size: 67 employees
Through situation-based mentoring, our teachers get a free space where they can address their biggest challenges.
Anna Lee
Principal
Meet Damen middle school
Damen middle school is a fictional school used to explain to you how situation-based mentoring can work at a school. This use case will explain how you can use it, what type of challenges situation-based mentoring can solve, and the benefits.
Key Numbers
50
%
Experienced dividends
0
%
Reduced employee turnover
0
%
Improved student results
The challenge: Frequent changes and teachers with a low sense of achievement
The teachers at the middle school have had to deal with constant changes and are tired. They also notice a difference in the students who are tired of change. Many of the teachers quit due to the experience of constant pressure and a feeling of little achievement in everyday work.
The teachers who still work there have not had time to talk so much together lately. They do everything they can to give students the best foundation they can get and good social relationships. There are many issues that teachers face daily that they want to discuss and air. This has been downgraded recently in favor of many changes at the political level.
After a while, the changes began to calm down somewhat. The school leaders want to initiate a measure where the teachers have time to talk together. It is important for the school leaders that the measure is not perceived as another change or control. None of the previous measures work in the new context in which they now stand.
Situation-based mentoring as teachers' initiatives
Anna is the principal at Damen middle school. She often has contact with the other principals in the local area to hear how they solve cases. A principal colleague at another secondary school named Lene said that she had recently started situation-based mentoring and recommended this to Anna.
Lene faces some of the same challenges as Anna. Therefore, Anna decides to read up on situation-based mentoring at peer-it and get to know how the tool works. She meets Anna to get some more information before she decides that this is something she wants to try at her school.
Anna suggests the idea to the teachers and gets a good response. She explains why she thinks the measure could work for them and says what she expects to achieve with the measure. The teachers agree that the measure is something that could be sensible to try out.
Anna selects three group leaders who will be responsible for informing and recruiting teachers and special educators for the program. Several teachers and special educators report their interest. To keep the group size down, they decide to have 5 people in each group. They have a time frame of ½ where they will complete with their group and then evaluate before they start a new round.
Problem-solving, security, and academic discussion
Anna and the teachers have now been using peer-it’s tool situation-based mentoring for half a year. The group leaders have an evaluation meeting with Anne. They say that the teachers give good feedback on the program. There are several who show interest in joining. The group leaders experience that the teachers actively listen to each other and help each other to see challenges and solutions from several perspectives.
Teachers like that they can choose what to develop. At the same time, Anne sees the effects she wanted – that the teachers who participate should experience greater mastery in everyday work and feel safer in decisions. Everyday work has changed for many. The teachers greatly appreciate the space they have been given to speak subjects and solve challenges. There is now a lower threshold for speaking subjects.
The groups have finished their first implementation and the group leaders will now start with round number two, where new teachers will be allowed to participate. Those who are chosen as group leaders think it is fun to decide who will be in the group together.
The group leaders thought it was a little scary at first, to lead the mentoring, but they quickly became confident in the role. They especially liked it when they started to see what benefit it could be for the teachers and when they are unsure of the new role, they can get support from each other.
Explore the supervision software
You can read more about the solution Anna used at Damen middle school. The situation-based supervision solution can be combined with other solutions peer-it has, or you can choose only supervision.
