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Motivating Teaching (Motivating Teaching Scan)

Motivating teachers make the difference. The Motivating Teaching Scan maps how students experience their school life and how teachers assess their own teaching style — giving schools a powerful basis to support and develop their teachers.

Many factors shape how students experience their school life. These include the content of the curriculum, the group they are part of, school policies, and the involvement and support of their parents. Teachers also play a key role in how students engage. Thanks to a motivating teacher, students become enthusiastic about learning, participate actively, and achieve better results. 

The Motivating teaching Scan maps how students experience their school life. In addition, it examines how teachers assess their own teaching style and how this is perceived by their students.  

The scan is designed for secondary school teachers and their students. A similar scan for primary school teachers and their students is currently in development. 

  • A mirror for every teacher

    Gathering both perspectives reveals blind spots: teachers immediately see whether their own self-assessment aligns with their students’ experiences. These insights help teachers consciously balance effective guidance on the one hand and giving room for input and initiative on the other. 

  • Scientifically grounded tool

    The Motivating Teaching Scan is fully scientifically validated. The results highlight both strengths and areas for growth in teaching style and motivation. In this way, the scan offers a practical self-reflection tool that supports teachers in their professional development. 

This survey includes the following modules, among others:

Leadership

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Motivation

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Modules that go well together with the Leadership Scan:

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Resilient at Work

High workloads, changing environments, and emotional challenges can make it difficult to stay resilient at work. Yet resilience is key to staying engaged and fulfilled in your job. This module offers employees a safe space to reflect on their energy balance, personal drivers and values. By sharpening their inner compass, they gain clarity about what energises them and how to act more deliberately on it. This increases their sense of autonomy, boosts motivation, and supports sustainable employability.
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Facilitating change

Change is inevitable in every organisation, but far from self-evident for those involved. New structures, processes or ways of working often trigger resistance. People lose certainties, routines and sometimes their sense of control or connectedness. In times of change, leaders often play a key role: they introduce the change, explain it and support their team throughout the process. The challenge is to ensure that people not only understand the change, but also engage with it and make it work together.
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Motivating delegation

Delegating may sound simple, but in practice it is not always evident. Tasks are not always picked up as intended, resistance may arise, or valuable time is sometimes lost. At the same time, many leaders find delegation far from straightforward. Yet it can be a powerful lever: when done in a motivating way, delegation fosters ownership in the team and leads to faster and stronger results.
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Giving Feedback

Feedback is a powerful tool for collaboration and growth, but in practice often a sensitive issue. Many leaders find it difficult or uncomfortable to give feedback, which sometimes results in no feedback at all. And when feedback is given, it is often experienced as criticism rather than support. As a result, feedback moments can create more tension than intended.
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Foster participation

For many leaders, fostering participation is a challenge. Sometimes there seems to be little time or space, sometimes discussions risk dragging on endlessly, or part of the team simply disengages. As a result, participation is often perceived as a slowing factor rather than a source of commitment and energy. Yet it makes a real difference when employees truly feel heard and understand how their input counts.
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Culturally aware leadership

Cultural diversity is a reality in many teams. Yet cultural differences are not always visible. They are present in communication, feedback, decision-making, pace and mutual expectations. As a leader, you face the challenge of communicating clearly and inclusively within this complexity. How do you foster inclusion without falling into stereotypes? And how can you turn differences into strengths?Culturally aware leadership helps you to recognise and value differences, while building a team where collaboration, innovation and job satisfaction flourish.