Invited to Capability Process Review, but on my own?

[ErmineAndPearls]

I'm a teacher at a Scottish school. I've been having problems and have found myself in a capability process. I've been called to meetings before and I've always been told that I could bring someone with me for support or even a Union representative. I never have. I didn't want to look defensive and I wanted to show good faith, I suppose.
A year ago I was given targets (to improve tracking and monitoring, to be more organised and to improve behaviour management) and I really think I've achieved these targets. But I've been called to this meeting and it's just me and two Deputy Heads. Nobody from HR, which there has been before. The whole year, I haven't heard much about this. I've had a monthly meeting with my line manager who has taken minutes and she's always shared them with me. I've had to initial them. The comments on there are mostly positive but there have been a few criticisms. Nothing major - things like maybe one piece of work not being returned swiftly enough and one pupil had a piece of unfinished work that I had neglected to chase up. These were with younger classes - my exam level classes, everything has been perfect.
The fact that this "review" has been left until the very end of term and the two managers at it has put me in a panic. The meeting is in two days' time.

Ask them if you can bring union representation. I assume you have informed your union that this is happening.

How long have you been teaching? Sounds like you are being micro managed.
At the very least take your school rep and chat with the local or regional union rep.

Get out of teaching is my advice or at least change schools. Be more organised, one bit of unfinished work, what a load of bollox.

It's all very well, but we have had weekly book looks by year leaders, and when we sneakily looked at the year leaders' books , they weren't "all that." They love to tell people what to do, but don't have to do it themselves. I'm sure your leaders would never ever have a piece of unfinished work in their class. All the children would produce incredible amounts of work regardless of anything 🤔.

What has this profession come to!!! These kids arn't robots, and neither are we!!!

Have your union rep or at the bare minimum a good friend to go with you. Make sure the meeting is minuted and get your friend/Rep to make their own copy so you can check the accuracy of the managment minutes later.
Before anything else ask the purpose of this specific meeting, ask them to highlight it on a copy of their capability procedure document so you can judge how serious this is and have this recorded in the minutes too.
If the meeting seems to be taking a negative turn ask for a break to discuss with your union rep. They have to let you do this even if it means rescheduling to get a rep on site. ( But you need to contact your rep not them)
If what you describe are the only concerns I would say as an ex-Rep that the odd bit of work not marked is not usually the sorts of isolated incident that would trigger formal capability procedures unless they were part of a bigger picture involving say, attendance, behavioural incidents or subject competance.
Maybe some coaching or mentoring is needed but it seems quite a heavy handed approach.

Of course they might want to just say you have sucessfully completed the monitoring period and that's why HR are not there,but best not to be wrong footed by going in alone.

Thank you everyone. I am really grateful for this calm advice. I was getting myself into a panic. I've been teaching for 25 years! And successfully too - my exam candidates always get good results. I'm in an independent school and they are desperate to make savings. It's very top heavy with management.

Good luck. I’d be looking for another job.Teaching is stressful enough without all this extra hassle and pressure

I'm popping back to thank you all again and give you an update. When I finally got into the meeting, thoroughly worked up, it actually turned out to be what @CurlyKoalie suggested - just literally a review of how things were going! I was questioned by them (in quite a positive manner) for about 25 minutes and of course I had answers to all of their questions since I've been worrying myself sick about this for two weeks. I did seek out the school's union rep. I didn't know who it was since our long serving rep left last year. When I found him, he told me exactly what @CurlyKoalie said - that I should stop the meeting and send for him if it started to take a bad turn. I was SO much calmer after reading all of your responses here. And that includes those of you who just said get new job or get out of teaching altogether! I'm certainly thinking about it, but if I leave, I would like it to be on my own terms.
At the moment, I feel like someone who has just had a last minute reprieve from execution, but I think as I calm down that I might get a bit annoyed about how that was handled. If they'd given me an agenda or even just spoken to me last week about the actual purpose of the meeting, I might not have come so close to a nervous breakdown. This school is struggling and I think that the mad micro-managing is basically a symptom of all of the many managers trying to justify their high salaries.
Anyway, thank you again - and if you invite someone to a meeting and it isn't about anything bad, please tell them!