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Introduction
Improve Your Leadership Skills tackles the issues faced by those in school leadership positions. The resource includes worksheets, guides, templates and 20-minute activities designed to help middle-leaders develop practical and straightforward procedures that will improve the learning and teaching within their school.
Summary of contents
This school resource tackles the issues faced by those in school leadership positions. It contains worksheets, guides and 20-minute activities designed to help middle-leaders develop practical and straightforward procedures that will make a contribution to teaching and learning within their school.
- adopting a strategic approach in their management
- leading improvement projects
- implementing development and action plans
- identifying and building on good practice
- directing others’ learning
- carrying out effective evidence-based practice
- developing their department as a team.
Chapter breakdown
Introduction to the file
Section 1 – Strategic leadership of the subject
Section 1.1: Establishing a starting point
Section 1.2: Moving forward
Section 1.3: Monitoring, evaluation and review
Section 2 – Leading and managing people
Section 2.1: Motivating colleagues
Section 2.2: Delegation
Section 2.3: Performance management
Section 2.4: Target setting
Section 2.5: Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Section 2.6: Leading and managing difficult people
Section 3 – Leading and managing the curriculum
Section 3.1: Leading through policies and plans
Section 3.2: Matching learning and teaching styles
Section 3.3: Assessment for learning and assessment of learning
Section 3.4: Target setting
Section 3.5: Monitoring through observation and scrutiny of plans and outcomes
Section 4 – Improving communications
Section 4.1: Developing communication skills as a subject leader/middle manager
Section 4.2: Communicating in meetings
Section 4.3: Electronic communication
Section 4.4: Paper-based communications
Section 4.5: Communicating externally
Section 5 – Improving your management of resources
Section 5.1: Finance and budgets
Section 5.2: Physical resources
Section 5.3: Accommodation and space
Section 5.4: Time
Section 5.5: Teaching materials
Section 5.6: Consumables
Section 6 – Responding to and developing policy
Section 6.1: Keeping up to date
Section 6.2: Policy writing
Section 6.3: Implementing policy
Section 6.4: Developing a departmental handbook
Section 7 – Quality monitoring in the subject
Details
Mixed media product. Contains Loose-leaf and CD-ROM 297 x 210, 430 Pages, Published 09/2005
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