How can I best prepare for the next academic year?

Around this time of year, I always ask myself how I can best prepare for the next academic year and what more I need to be doing. There is always so much more to do, to read and think about. I recently read a lecture synopsis that nicely articulates this: ‘As well as holding extensive subject knowledge, teachers are also expected to have pedagogical knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge, not to mention curricular knowledge, and knowledge of their students, students’ needs and how to get the best out of them, and knowledge of the school, its policies and how they should be applied. The list goes on and on…’. On top of this, we have been through several years of continual reform in the English education system.