Habits
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The foundation of your teaching and learning model
Habits are the areas of pedagogy on which you wish to provide feedback and therefore the foundation of your teaching and learning model.
You can choose to comment on and/or apply a rating to your Habits. You can also add help text to each Habit, which appears on your feedback forms and provides guidance for those giving feedback.
Understanding the Habits page
To manage your Habits, navigate to Settings > Feedback Management > Habits
Below is a key with descriptions of all the features available on the Habits page.
| Area | Feature description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Search for particular text in Habits |
| 2 | Click on the 'x' next to the 'Search' box to clear the contents |
| 3 | Click on the 'Create' button to set up a new Habit |
| 4 | The 'Sorting Order' of the Habits, click the column heading to sort |
| 5 | Habit names, click the column heading to sort |
| 6 | Rating / Comment status of each Habit |
| 7 | Help text that appears under each Habit on feedback forms |
| 8 | Habits can be edited using their row in the 'Actions' column |
| 9 | Adjust the number of rows on a page to suit your needs |
Creating a new Habit
To create a new Habit:
- Navigate to the page Settings > Feedback Management > Habits
- Click on the 'Create' button (Area 3 in the table above), which will take you to the 'Create Habit' page.
- In the 'Sorting Order' box, choose a Sorting Order, which can be done either by manually entering a number or using the up/down arrows at the end of the box. The Sorting Order determines the order in which your Habits will appear on your feedback forms and in your matrix (if you are using the matrix feature).
- In the 'Habit' box, enter the name of the Habit you wish to add.
- In the 'Rating / Comment' box, choose whether you want the Habit to be 'Rating and comment' or 'Comment only'. See the Knowledge Base article here explaining Ratings.
- In the 'Help text' box, add the text you wish to appear on feedback forms, providing guidance for leaders on what to write in the comments boxes.
- Click on the 'Submit' button to create the Habit.
- Click on the 'Cancel' button to return to the Settings > Feedback Management > Habits page without making any changes.
Editing a Habit
To edit a Habit:
- Navigate to the page Settings > Feedback Management > Habits
- Click on the 'Edit' button on the row of the Habit you want to edit (Area 8 in the table above). This will take you to the 'Edit Habit' page.
- In the 'Sorting Order' box, amend the Sorting Order, which can be done either by manually deleting then entering a new number or using the up/down arrows at the end of the box. The Sorting Order determines the order in which your Habits will appear on your feedback forms and in your matrix (if you are using the matrix feature).
- In the 'Habit' box, edit the name of the Habit.
- In the 'Rating / Comment' box, switch between 'Rating and comment' and 'Comment only'. See the Knowledge Base article here explaining Ratings.
- In the 'Help text' box, edit the text you wish to appear on feedback forms, providing guidance for leaders on what to write in the comments boxes.
- Click on the the 'Submit' button to save your amendments.
- Click on the 'Delete' button to remove the Habit.
- Click on the 'Cancel' button to return to the Settings > Feedback Management > Habits page without making any changes.
Top tips 💡
Using your help text flexibly
It is advisable to keep the same Habits while you have a particular teaching framework in place. Making minor changes to the wording of a Habit will not present a problem, however, major changes to the wording of a Habit that shift its focus onto a different area of pedagogy will make the data you gather against it lose its validity.
Amending and adding to the content in your help text is easy and will not affect your quality of teaching data in any way, so you can take a flexible approach. This is exactly what one of our trusts has done, opting to gather data against set Habits so they can see quality of teaching headlines across the trust, but give their primary, secondary and special schools autonomy to write their own context-specific help text. Here is an example, comparing help text from one of their secondary schools and one of their special schools:
Lesson notes Habit for recording objectives
One of our schools has added a ‘Lesson notes’ Habit to their feedback forms. This section is used to record the lesson objective and any other context around a lesson. Even though the other strands on the form are set up with ‘Ratings and comments’, this strand is ‘Comment only’, so they are using the platform's flexibility to switch between the two settings on different Habits within the same feedback form.
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