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Jack Radics - No Matter. Sarah Kuttner Interview. #FieryTeaching in schools and classrooms by @TeacherToolkit. I returned to work on Friday 30th August for our annual senior leadership meeting.
This is traditionally before the start of each academic year. As you would expect, this gathering is strategic, but full of holiday gossip and banter; as well as headline stories regarding summer examinations; school news; building works and staffing and student matters. Discombobulated! Despite the frolics and enlightenment of the meeting, I left work in a state of consternation. This was nothing to do with anything specific about school, or any disastrous examination grades; it was more to do with the rude-awakening of the brain! Having managed to completely switch off for at least four weeks (I know this is not possible for some teachers and senior leaders), but for the second year in a row, I managed to have a complete rest.
Stop! Training day pitfalls: What to avoid and how to put it right! Autumn is upon us, and by the time you read this, you will have experienced at least one, perhaps two Inset days, finely tuned into school priorities for the forthcoming academic year.
For some, these may be quite simply jumbled together to keep you busy from the outset. The resonance of your headteacher’s ‘welcoming speech’, reflecting on the year gone by, highlighting particular successes and milestones overcome, may or may not be fresh in your mind.
Performance management. Good Teaching demands on Passion - Nachricht. 20.
April 2014 | Quality & Collaboration: A wonderful idea but complex to deliver? - Blog. "Teaching quality also improves within a collegial, collaborative environment … The power of the collective capacity is that it enables ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things.
" (All Systems Go, 2010) Steve Munby’s recent speech to the Leaders of the first 100 Teaching Schools included important messages relevant to all schools, not just Teaching Schools. Key amongst these were comments on collaboration and the sharing of best practice. How do senior leaders get their jobs? The reason I write this post is to share my experiences with other colleagues. It is certainly not an exemplary model of any leadership interview, just my story. In the short amount of time I have been working in school leadership, the application and interview process still remains an unknown quantity for many of us. At each of the stages we climb higher, we relish the challenge but would also acknowledge that, for the vast majority, we are stepping into the unknown. In the past few years, I have experienced a total of four leadership interviews.
A Rounded Approach to CPD: Temple Moor High School - Blog. Through the wonderful world of Twitter I’ve been in touch with Tait Coles , Assistant Head at Temple Moor High School in Leeds, following the school’s purchase of IRIS Connect. As ever, I was interested to discover their plans with IRIS and how they plan to use it as part of their CPD programme. The school has a great, rounded collective approach to professional development, which I thought was worth sharing. Teaching and Learning Communities (TLCs) Temple Moor has a number of differentiated and bespoke TLCs, giving all staff opportunity to develop their professional learning with a particular area of focus.
The groups cover all areas of the teaching community, from the 5R Development TLC, in which the group will create resources and strategies to implement the 5Rs, independent learning and collaborative learning throughout the school; to the Developing Teacher Programme TLC, which is designed to develop and support teachers to plan and deliver continuingly good to outstanding lessons. The Value of Self-reflection - Blog. Self-reflection – a powerful tool for every teacher What if taking control of your professional development meant you understood not only what is, but also began creating what could be?
Educational Reformer John Dewy once said “We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.” Regularly examining what has and what hasn't worked in the classroom is a valuable tool to help you grow as a teacher, but why? The answer is threefold: Job Satisfaction If you leave your career unexamined it will get stale. Making a difference While following routines can help you to manage the task of teaching it can also leave you feeling powerless to really make a difference to student’s lives. Meeting Demands. Leading a Learning Community from the middle…. COACHING IN SCHOOLS:IT MATTERS!
‘The Middle Leader as Lead Learner’ By Rachael Edgar Goes without saying that key to all succesful schools is the quality of the learning experiences that goes on within it. Seems obvious doesnt it? Lessons are for learning, of course they are, its hardly a revolutionary concept but an important one to remember when we get bogged down on a Wednesday evening with a set of books to mark and 3 lessons to plan for the next day, or when we get disillusioned because of too many initiatives in education and there is too much pressure on us to perform.
Upside Down CPD: R&D Communities. Sharing best practice in secondary teaching and learning. Sharing good practice ideas.