Team Talks: Priti Dube
Priti Dube is Cover Supervisor at Maiden Erlegh School, where she ensures continuity of learning during teacher absences and helps maintain calm, focused classrooms across the school. Her role requires consistency, organisation and close collaboration with teaching and pastoral teams to ensure students remain engaged and supported.
Q: What is your role?
A: As a Cover Supervisor at Maiden Erlegh School, I manage classes during teacher absences, ensuring students remain on task, follow lesson plans, and maintain high standards of behaviour in a calm, focused learning environment.
Q: You were identified for Team Talks by your colleagues. Why does this work matter to you?
A: I was identified for MET Team Talks by colleagues for my collaborative approach and commitment to supporting students. This work is important to me because it encourages sharing good practice, strengthens teamwork, and helps create a consistent, positive learning environment for all students.
“This work encourages sharing good practice, strengthens teamwork, and helps create a consistent, positive learning environment for all students.”
Q: What impact does this work have for you and for students?
A: This work supports staff confidence, creates consistent and calm classrooms for students, and is personally rewarding as it allows me to contribute positively to the school community.
Q: What has helped you deliver this work successfully?
A: A positive, flexible mindset and experience working across different classrooms have helped me. Support from colleagues and school culture have also played a key role in delivering this work effectively.
Q: Which MET value connects most strongly to your work and why?
A: Work Together best connects to my work because working closely with colleagues helps support students and keep classrooms calm and consistent.
“Working closely with colleagues helps support students and keep classrooms calm and consistent.”
Q: What advice would you give to colleagues interested in similar work?
A: My advice would be to stay open, be flexible, and work closely with colleagues. Sharing ideas and learning from each other makes the work more effective and rewarding.
Q: Any final reflections?
A: I’d like to give a thank you to my colleagues for their support and for sharing ideas — working together has made this experience rewarding and inspiring. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Thank you, Priti, for sharing your work with us in this Team Talk.
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