Free Teaching Maturity Template
Rate a department across planning, instruction, assessment, feedback and professional learning, place it in a maturity band, and get an AI PDF plan.
Quick answer
Rate a department across planning, instruction, assessment, feedback and professional learning, place it in a maturity band, and get an AI PDF plan.
About this template
Self-evaluation reports tend to describe effort rather than locate the gap. This assessment rates five dimensions of teaching quality on a 1-5 evidence-anchored scale and maps each onto bands - emerging, developing, secure, exemplary - so the result names a position and a next step rather than a number. The AI PDF improvement plan sets two priorities per dimension with the evidence to collect, and the same instrument re-run next year shows whether the band actually moved.
Live Preview
Fillable sample teaching maturity preview, showing the rated items and the personalized AI report each respondent gets.
What's Included
Everything you need to run this template.
Bands, not averages
A position on a scale tells you more than a decimal place.
Evidence behind each item
Ratings cite observable practice, so the review can be checked.
Two priorities per dimension
An improvement plan short enough to execute.
Comparable next year
The same instrument re-run measures movement, not mood.
How It Works
From copy to deliverable in four steps.
Set the dimensions and bands
Copy it in and set dimensions, evidence items and bands.
Rate with evidence
Review teams rate jointly and cite what they can show.
Read the plan
Open the AI PDF with priorities and evidence to collect.
Re-run in a year
Score again and compare band movement.
Who Is This For
Pick your role — see how it fits your workflow.
Principals and school leaders
Set one improvement priority list from rated evidence.
Department heads
Compare teams on the same bands without competing narratives.
Accreditors and reviewers
See the position, the proof and the plan in one document.
Key Features
What makes this template work as a professional deliverable.
- Planning, instruction, assessment, feedback and professional learning rated
- Each item tied to observable evidence
- Band mapping you define for your framework
- Personalized AI PDF improvement plan
- Two priorities per dimension with evidence to collect
- Year-over-year comparison on re-run
Sample Questions Inside
A preview of the real scored items - the published template weights them and writes one report per respondent.
- Learning intentions are shared with students in advance (1-5)
- Assessment is used to change what is taught next (1-5)
- Students receive feedback they can act on (1-5)
- Planning is collaborative within and across teams (1-5)
- Professional learning is chosen from evidence (1-5)
- Which band do you want to move first? (select)
- Evidence you can show for the top band (open)