Leadership
Being a New Head of Year: The First Year
Step up to head of year with a clear vision for your year group, and without becoming the person every problem gets sent to.
- 1 hour 3 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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14 days free, then £70 a year or £7 a month.
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What you'll learn
- Map the people you work with and what each needs from you
- Explain your vision for the year group in a lift-length conversation
- Use transactional analysis to keep conversations adult to adult
- Delegate so tutors handle more without passing every problem up
- Lead your team through change and take criticism less personally
About this course
A new head of year answers to a lot of people: students, tutors, subject teachers, TAs, parents and senior leaders. It's easy to spend the first term reacting to all of them, and to become the place every misbehaving child gets sent.
This helps you lead instead. You'll practise explaining your vision for the year group in the time a lift takes to reach its floor. You'll use transactional analysis to keep conversations adult to adult, so tutors and students sort out more for themselves. And you'll pick up habits that change how families see you, like sending home good news and not only the bad.
There's advice on managing change, and on handling criticism, which in this job is usually about a decision you made rather than about you.
- For middle leaders. Post-16, primary and secondary.
Recording
- 63 min
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