Departmental Handbook - Example ‘CONTENTS’ page…
The following is an example only of a Contents page, purely to be used as a
starting point, if you need one. It is important that your Department Handbook
contains what is applicable to your department.
A Department Handbook should be considered as a working document – all staff
should be encouraged to annotate the pages… jot down recommendations for
improvement… cross through irrelevant/outdated information… The Handbook
can then be updated at the end of the school year.
C O N T E N T S
SECTION 1: DEPARTMENT STATEMENT
1
•Aims and Objectives
•Shared Values
SECTION 2: PERSONNEL
5
•Personnel and Responsibilities
•Appraisal Progress/CPD issues
SECTION 3: TIMETABLES
13
•Department
•Use Maths Block Rooms
•Year/Faculty
•Free Rooms
•Homework
•Who's Teaching Who?
•Calendar
SECTION 4: ENVIRONMENT
18
•Responsibility for Rooms
•Leaving the rooms
•Forms in the Maths Block
•Resources
SECTION 5: POLICIES
•Presentation of Work
•Basic Equipment for Students
•Spelling
23
•Teaching and Learning Styles
•Grouping Students
•Homework
•Equal Opportunities
•Spiritual, moral, social, cultural
•Cover and Staff Absence
•Marking
•ICT
•Special Needs / Float Teachers
•Discipline
•Y12 Community Service
SECTION 6: DEPARTMENT PLANNING
42
•Review and Development Plan
•INSET
•Budget
SECTION 7: RECORDS OF ACHIEVEMENT
46
•Recording and Assessment; evaluation
•Self Assessment, Target Setting and Reviewing
•Use of Profile Sheets
•Reports
SECTION 8: CURRICULUM – schemes of work
54
•Y7
- Staff Guidance
- At a Glance
- NC Coverage and Resources
•Y8 - Staff Guidance
- At a Glance
- NC Coverage and Resources
•Y9 - Staff Guidance
- At a Glance
- NC Coverage and Resources
•Y10/11 – scheme of work
- coursework
•16 - 19 Provision
SECTION 9: EXAMINATIONS / TARGET SETTING
72
•Organisation
•Analysis of data + targets
SECTION 10: EXTRA CURRICULAR MATHEMATICS
•Mathematics Day
•Maths Competitions
•Maths Club
75
•UK School Maths Challenge
SECTION 11: LIAISON WITH...
77
•Other Departments
•Other Secondary Schools
•Feeder Schools
•Outside Agencies
•Parents
•Advisers
•Useful Addresses / Contacts
SECTION 12: DEPARTMENT MEETINGS
•Organisation
•Minutes
82