Shadow a Senior Leader
Observe and work alongside a senior leader carrying out their leadership role across a period of time taking part in self-review in many formats to further develop own practice. This could be a Head, a deputy, AHT or middle leader. Leadership focus to meet your needs.
The leadership competences focus on:
Strategic Thinking creating a clear vision and renewed direction based upon a firm evidence base
Analytical Thin king and the ability to identify trends and areas for further development
Drive for Excellence and the extent to which you are resilient and relentless and do not tolerate mediocrity
Developing Potential and identifying effective practice across school at all levels and how it can be utilised to enhance their area of responsibility
Holding People Accountable and how expectations are set and time lines met
The leadership styles focus for development on:
Authoritative and how they provide clarity of direction, roles and responsibilities and gain commitment
Pace Setting and the extent to which expectations are clear and good practice modelled
Coaching and identifying potential to be released and maximized
Self-Review strategies focus for development:
Lesson observations
Learning walks
Discussions with pupils
Planning Reviews
Book trawls
How assessment for progress is used across a lesson/ across a week to ensure rapid and sustained progress
Teaching Strategies to be focused:
Establishment of an empowering learning environment that impacts on progress across a lesson/ over time
Creating hooks and provocations for learning that engage learners
Creating pace and engagement in all parts of the lesson
Effective introductions and plenaries that ensure all groups make progress and learning is rapidly moved on
Effective modelling and demonstration of new learning that makes new learning explicit
Ensuring quality of instruction enables children to make rapid progress across a lesson
Ensuring effective differentiation in all parts of the lesson meets the needs of all learners Questioning that deepens children’s’ thinking and learning
Establishing learning opportunities that effectively give pupils the locus of control so they lead their own
Resourcing learning effectively so that learning is made concrete
Assessment for progress across a lesson so learners are clear about what they need to do to make progress
Ensuring learning opportunities are open ended and investigative and lead to children independently recording learning steps so their progress a cross a lesson is visible.