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Providing Quality, Excellence and Improvement in the Education Service
Senior Leadership Pathways
Providing Quality, Excellence and Improvement in the Education Service
Programme for the day09.45 – 10.00 Welcome
10.00 – 10.25 Activity 1
10.25 – 11.00 The Context
11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15 – 11.30 Skills and attributes
11.30 – 12.15 Activity 2
12.15 – 12.45 Programme structure and methodology
12.45 – 13.00 Questions
13.00 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 14.15 Leadership, management and administration
14.15 – 15.30 Leadership Activity 3 and 4
15.30 – 16.00 Concluding remarks
Providing Quality, Excellence and Improvement in the Education Service
Paired Introductions• What do you enjoy doing when you
are not at work?
• What is your favourite place/country to visit?
• What has been your proudest moment so far?
• Share a goal you have set for yourself.
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Activity 1 (25 minutes)
• What are your expectations of:– Yourself– The facilitators– The group– The programme
– Consider your self-appraisal and learning styles in the light of your expectations
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Senior Leadership Pathways
• Underpinned by National Standards for School Leadership
• Designed to facilitate adult learning
• Promotes individual and organisational learning
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National Standards for School Leadership
• Core purpose• Key outcomes• Professional knowledge and understanding• Skills and attributes
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Core purpose for school leaders
To provide professional leadership and management to secure high quality teaching, effective use of resources and improved standards of learning and achievement for all pupils
Providing Quality, Excellence and Improvement in the Education Service
Professional knowledge and understanding
• Aims, priorities, targets and action plans• The characteristics of high quality teaching and
learning• The promotion of pupils’ spiritual, moral, social,
cultural, mental and physical development• The role of school governance• Health and safety issues
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Coffee Break
Providing Quality, Excellence and Improvement in the Education Service
Skills • The ability to lead and manage people to work
towards common goals• The ability to solve problems and make decisions• The ability to work clearly and understand the
views of others• The ability to plan time effectively and to organise
oneself well
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Attributes
• Personal impact and presence• Adaptability to changing
circumstances and new ideas• Energy, vigour and perseverance• Self-confidence• Enthusiasm• Intellectual ability• Reliability and integrity• Commitment
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Key outcomes Activity 2 (45 minutes)
• Effective middle leaders result in:– pupils who– teachers who– parents who– principals and other senior leaders who– support staff who
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Programme Structure - methodology
• Six twilight seminars (4.00pm – 7.30pm)• Reflective Journal• School Improvement Project• A day to review learning and share good practice• Online support dimension• Learning through the experiences undertaken
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Six Seminars related to six key areas for school leadership
• Vision and values• Leading learning and teaching• Intrapersonal and interpersonal
relationships• Managing the organisation• Professional accountability• Working with the community
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Reflective Journal
• To increase your knowledge, understanding and personal skills.
• To become aware of your preferred leadership style.
• To systematically analyse your practice.
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School Improvement Project
• Identify a significant piece of ongoing work within your area of responsibility that contributes to school improvement
• Review your current practice and identify ways of improvement
• Capture the main learning points in your reflective journal
• Presentation at final event
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Criteria for School Improvement Project
• It should improve pupil learning• It should be action planned with SMART targets• It should involve you in leadership of a team• It should require you working collaboratively with
others• It should be agreed in advance and verified by your
principal when complete
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Working in threes
Explain briefly to the others your initial ideas for a SIP.
Ensure that your ideas satisfy the criteria outlined above.
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Final Session
• Discuss the key learning points for you• Consider what you have learned about leading others
and the implications for you as a leader• Present your completed SIP to the group• Receive verification that you have completed the
programme• Consider the next steps in your professional
development journey
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Online support
• Study support materials will be available online
• Relevant web links will be identified
• Web links to audio/visual/text resources
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Questions, Questions, Questions
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Providing Quality, Excellence and Improvement in the Education Service
Leadership, Management and Administration
The important distinction between leaders, managers and administrators: leaders have
followers managers have
policies and a rule book
administrators do as they are told by managers
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Management
• Management is the efficient, effective and economic use of resources to achieve results with and through the efforts of other people.
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Characteristics of high leadership potential
• Seeks opportunities to learn• Acts with integrity• Adapts to cultural
differences• Is committed to making a
difference• Learns from successes and
mistakes
• Brings out the best in people• Is insightful• Has the courage to take
risks• Seeks and uses feedback• Is open to criticism
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Leadership Activity 3Consider the following two questions in relation to your school:-• What do effective leaders do?• What should effective leaders do?
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Leadership Activity 3• Examine the definition of
leadership provided to your group.
• What are the practical implications of this definition in a school setting?
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Activity 4
• Identify your two main strengths as a leader.
• Which two areas of leadership do you wish to develop in the programme?
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Activities before Seminar 2
• Complete the leadership styles inventory at home and return to facilitators before the second seminar
• Complete the School improvement form and return to facilitators before the second seminar
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Dates for your diary
• See accompanying sheet