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New Subject
Leader Training
Welcome to the jungle
How is being a
Subject Leader
like being in the
jungle?
Brainstorm
some ideas
Prize for the best!
Q on notice board
Session 1
Leadership vs
Management
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M
BIG PICTURE OBJECTIVES
Session 1
Outcomes- Session 1
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Explain the features of good
teachers; departments and schools.
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Know the difference between
leadership and management
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Understand the significance of the
difference
•
Have an overview of how these fit
together- developing your vision
TASK 1
What are features of good•Teachers
•Departments
•Subject leaders
•Schools ?
You have 10 minutes to discuss and agree
one of the above. Write on flip chart paper
and display round room. Be prepared to
feed back.
Managers do things right and
focus on maintenance.
Leaders do the right thing and
focus on improvement.
(Hodgskinson & Kirk 2005)
Leadership vs
Management
I must
improve!
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I must
keep as
I am!
Which words are to do with Leadership and
which are Management? Think, pair, share
Vision
Systems
Transformation
Strategic issues
L or M ?
Transformation
Implementation
Ends
Doing things right
Doing the right things
TASK 1
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Sort cards into management
and leadership tasks. Discuss
and agree
M
5 mins
TASK 2
Now prioritise/ Diamond sort
5 mins
TASK 3
What is vision? What is yours?
5 mins
TASK 1
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Sort cards into management
and leadership tasks. Discuss
and agree
M
5 mins
TASK 2
Now prioritise/ Diamond sort
5 mins
TASK 3
What is vision? What is yours?
5 mins
TASK 1
L
Sort cards into management
and leadership tasks. Discuss
and agree
M
5 mins
TASK 2
Now prioritise/ Diamond sort
5 mins
TASK 3
What is vision? What is yours?
5 mins
Plenary
What have you personally taken
from this?
What is your vision?
•Features of good teachers,
departments and schools.
Thinking time!
5 mins
Share this with a partner
•Leadership vs management
•Have an overview of how
these fit togetherdeveloping your vision
Session 4
The Reality!
BIG PICTURE OBJECTIVES
Session 4
Outcomes- session 4
• Be
aware of different styles of
leadership and your own preferred style
•Evaluate the need for different styles of
leadership in different circumstances
•Use analysis tools to assist in
implementing vision
•Know some survival tricks
Tools of the trade
Force field
analysis
SWOT analysis
What can you do in your department?
Team teaching /
coaching
Dept. priority in
action plan
Will to
change
Good
teachers
Research/
evidence into
good T & L
Pupils like to
know
Issue :Obj led
lessons
Lessons task not
objective led
Time/ too
many other
pressures
Lack of
consistency
Some staff don’t
see why they
should change
SWOT Analysis
Strengths
Weakness
Opportunities
Threats/ risks
Strengths
Weakness
Opportunities
Threats/ risks
What is your leadership style?
Affiliative style –
creating harmony among
staff and leaders
Coaching style –
long term professional
development of staff
Pacesetting style –
accomplishing tasks to
high standards of
excellence
Coercive style –
immediate
compliance
Democratic style –
building commitment among
staff and generating new
ideas
Authoritative style –
providing long term
direction and vision
What is your leadership style?
Supportive
Where do they fit?
What is your natural
style?
Discuss 2 mins
Directive
Einstein Technical College
What would you do?
TASK
Use the tools of the trade, Motley crew; M
& E sheet etc to plan what you would
do………in the leadership style of :…………………….
Be prepared to feed back in 60mins.
Welcome to the jungle
How is being a
Subject Leader
like being in the
jungle?
Brainstorm
some ideas
Prize !
Questions answered
Plenary
What will you do when you get
back to school?
What support would you like from
the LEA?
What is your vision?
Thinking time!
5 mins
•Leadership styles
•Using the tools to
implement a vision
•Survival tricks
Stress / time management
game
We put you under pressure!
In teams decide what you will do, using the
resources available.
You have 3 mins to look at the resources
available and to sort out any team
strategies.
It’s time to play
STRESS!
Q1) Details are passed to you, by the
Head teacher, about a competition for
Einstein year run by the ASE. What do
you do ?
• Say will you would do and WHY.
You have 3 mins.
Q2)
You have recently been appointed
as a HOS. A current member of
the dept. also applied for the job.
Now you are in post they keep
doing tasks that you consider are
yours i.e. set lists etc.
You have 3
mins
What will you do and why?
Q3) You have 3 mins to complete
this statement :-
As a subject leader it is vital to
have a vision because……
Round 2
Q4) Guess the word/taboo
Oops!
Don’t say it!
One team member has to
come out and describe as
many words as possible to
their team in 2 mins
Q5)
You have a deadline for the departmental
improvement plan / meeting with the
Head the next day and a friend calls up
who you haven’t seen for 5 years who is
over from Australia. They are travelling
to London the next day.
What will you do?
6) Pictionary round
Draw the techniques for emergency coping
strategies. You have 3 mins :Try to get teams to say / guess key words
(See Emergency coping strategies sheet)
7) You are working on the
departmental timetable and a Head
of Year comes into your office
wanting to talk about pupil X.
What do you do?
(See interruptions sheet)
Q8) Team round (3 mins)
Bonus points for entertainment value!
You have been in the job for a year and have really tried
as hard as you can. You have a yearly report to write, a
pile of books to mark, one NQT has just been to see you
in tears because they don’t feel they are coping with one
class; you have 50 e-mails to reply to, your lessons to plan
for the following day, a good member of the department
has just told you they are resigning just before half
term so you have a new post to advertise and you have
just found out that it is likely that the school will
undergo OFSTED.You get home and your partner is upset
that they don’t see you any more and that you are not as
happy as you used to be. They are worried as they haven’t
been able to get the shopping. Your son asks you to play
football.
What do you do?……& why?