Teachers standards myths and facts. Can you feel the force? A leadership model. Did I invent this? Unlikely .. but it makes a lot of sense to me and I don’t know where it comes from: In explaining my perception of how organisations work and what the role of leadership is, I’ve been using this model a lot recently. The magnetic forcefield analogy. An organisation is a group of individuals.
Structures, organisational diagrams, hierarchies, job descriptions, line-management trees etc are all just attempts to create some kind of order out of the complexity of relationships that criss-cross any large group. In the absence of a force field, we tend to drift around; there is no automatic direction and our alignment to each other becomes weak and randomised over time. What does the leader do?
1. For me, the model is useful because it reminds me that a) everyone is an individual with perfectly legitimate personal and professional goals of their own. B) I need to work continually to make sure there is direction; there is an overarching vision. Can you feel the force!!?? COMPASS. DfE Pay Advice. RSA Animate - Changing Paradigms. Preparing for an OFSTED inspection. I have been a Headteacher for 9 years and, at the age of 48, this much I know about preparing from an OFSTED inspection.
In March 2012 I received a letter from OFSTED saying that the earliest we could be inspected was the summer term 2013, which begins tomorrow… Don’t be naïve about OFSTED Inspections. A good report frees you for five years to develop your school; a bad report can, as Robbie Burns once wrote, Leave us nothing but grief and pain,/For promised joy! A clear, intense and highly effective focus upon improving the quality of teaching is the only preparation for OFSTED that really matters, because the quality of teaching is the only thing that really matters in a school.
You can have great data but if the teaching observed is ordinary you can be in trouble; you can have mediocre data but if the teaching observed is outstanding you can get a Good judgement; it’s true, I’ve read the reports. Preparing for OFSTED booklet 2013 OFSTED Training Day 25-02-13 Wilshaw final version. Pay advice. Advice helping schools decide how to pay their teachers is today published by the Department for Education.
The advice is being sent to all schools in England, alongside a revised version of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document that reflects reforms to teachers’ pay. Schools will, from 1 September 2013, be able to link teachers’ pay to performance allowing them to pay good teachers more. This follows recommendations from the independent School Teachers’ Review Body, which last year called on the government to link teachers’ pay more closely to their performance. By this September every school will need to have revised its pay and appraisal policies setting out how pay progression will in future be linked to a teacher’s performance. The first performance-linked pay increases will be made from September 2014.
The new arrangements provide increased flexibility for schools to develop pay policies tailored to their particular needs. A Department for Education spokesperson said: Home page.