Leadership
Be a Successful Subject Leader
Make time to lead your department as well as run it, so the long-term plans survive the daily firefighting.
- 14 minutes
- 8 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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14 days free, then £70 a year or £7 a month.
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What you'll learn
- Tell the difference between leading your department and managing it
- Keep strategy time separate so long-term plans don't get lost
- Set a vision for your department and explain it to your team
- Check the quality of teaching through observations, work sampling and student voice
- Spend your department's budget where it will make most difference to learning
About this course
One former headteacher split his leadership meetings in two: a strategy meeting every few weeks, and a weekly one for the here and now. It stopped the long-term plans getting buried under each day's problems.
It's a habit you can copy in your own department. You'll see the difference between leading a department and managing one, and why a subject leader has to do both. The course then breaks the job into five parts, including setting a vision your team can get behind and leading on teaching, so you can see where you're strong and what's been slipping.
You'll come away clearer about what the role asks of you, and the meetings idea alone is worth trying before the end of term.
- For middle leaders. Post-16, primary, secondary and special.
8 modules
Open in order
- 2 min
Introduction
- 1 min
Wrap up
- 6 min
Leadership and management
- 2 min
Setting a vision for the future
- 2 min
Being a lead teacher
- 1 min
Working with and developing others
- 2 min
Leading the department
- 2 min
Developing external links