Outcome Conversations Damage Schools
Reading Time: 4 minutes What can happen when the ‘wrong data’ is interpreted during an OfSTED inspection?
Tag: Head teacher
The False Proxy Trap
Reading Time: 5 minutes How do we stop OfSTED falling into a ‘false proxy trap’?
What makes an outstanding senior leader? #360Review (Part 1 of 6)
Reading Time: 7 minutes In my final educational composition for 2013, I am offering a reflection on my own school leadership. What makes an outstanding senior leader? Here, I pose a series of questions for the reader and expose my very own #360Review. This is part one of a six-part leadership series to be posted over the holiday period.
Teacher Recruitment Musings
Reading Time: 7 minutes An abundance of teachers and head teachers across the country exclaim that the recruitment process is disordered and continues to fluctuate. (@MyEdHunt slideshow provides quotes and statistics). As a consequence, many head teachers resort to recruiting overseas. As a classroom and senior teacher, I can only agree that the job-seeking process is tangled in protocol and defragmented at the […]
@TeacherToolkit progress…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Just a quick update on my professional progress (and more) since I announced this in January 2013.
To uniform or not to uniform, that is the question? by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 2 minutes This post answers the 25th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. With the start of the summer term upon us, and many schools that ‘have uniforms’ as school policy, most may contemplate a ‘summer-uniform, or at least allow student-councils to debate the issue, should the British climate decide to warm up! This particular […]
Dear Parent, What I’d Really Like To Say …
Reading Time: 3 minutes What would you most like to say to parents?
12 Days of Christmas, My Headteacher Gave To Me
Reading Time: 2 minutes Some light-hearted fun for the Christmas season …
A war of nerves? by @TeacherToolkit #SLTchat
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trying to win over the hearts and minds of potential students and parents is no easy feat – in many aspects it’s as daunting as facing the dreaded Ofsted inspector, says Ross Morrison McGill. This article features in the @ASCL_UK Leader Magazine for December 2012, here.
Why should you encourage kids to ask ‘why’? by @MsFindlater
Reading Time: 5 minutes This post answers the 19th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top-Thunks here. Thunk 19: Why should you encourage your kids to ask ‘why’? by @MsFindlater
Planning outstanding CPD provision for Support staff, by @TeacherToolkit #SLTchat
Reading Time: 5 minutes CPD Update – November 2012 Newsletter – Optimus Education. This article can be found on Optimus Education website here – you will need to log in or create an account to view it. “Training for support staff continues to disappoint me, simply because it is managed poorly. Lately, I’ve had to place CPD for support […]
My first term as Head, by @HeadGuruTeacher Tom Sherrington
Reading Time: 4 minutes This post answers the 5th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top-Thunks here. Thunk 5: My first term as Headteacher, by Tom Sherrington (@HeadGuruTeacher). Arriving as Head of a school is daunting. In my case, the school was already Outstanding, had just had great results and all my […]
