Posted in CPD, Careers, Learning and teaching, Parental Involvement, Personnel, professionalism on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »
One of the issues facing schools these days is the concern expressed by some parents about a probationer teaching their child’s class.
A probationer is a newly qualified teacher (NQT) and in the past they would have just started teaching as a teacher - but without any of the support systems we now have in place.
I [...]
Posted in Careers, Curriculum for Excellence, Partnerships, Strategic on Aug 26th, 2007 4 Comments »
I’m on the steering group of the Dynamic Earth/ Scottish Seabird Centre Outreach Programme
Krista McKinsey, the current schools communicator, has done a wonderful job but is leaving us in September to take up a job at Durham University.
At the steering group meeting on Friday we explored how we might go about replacing her.
One of the options [...]
Posted in CPD, Careers, Culture change, Leadership, Management on Nov 11th, 2006 2 Comments »
Over the next few weeks we’ll be meeting with principal teachers from all of our secondary schools (we’ve already met with primary PTs and all schools’ depute heads). These meetings take place from 4.30-5.45pm and PTs opt into the opportunity.The first meeting took place this week and we enjoyed a very productive chat about how we [...]
Posted in Careers, Learning and teaching, Power/influence on Dec 11th, 2005 No Comments »
Perhaps it might be worth taking some time to reflect upon the job of Head of Education - a post I’ve now occupied for five months.
The following is going to include a lot of the vertical pronoun i.e. “I”, hopefully readers can put up with this indulgence to enable me to explore my own motivation and [...]