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 Accountability, Culture, Ideas, Management, Personal Lessons, Personnel, honesty on Jun 1st, 2007 6 Comments »
Following yesterday’s post I’ve been doing a little more reading about honesty and leadership.
Honesty is seen by many as a key factor in effective leadership 1,2, 3, 4
However, the recurring definition of honesty in most texts relates to trustworthiness of the leader.
I’m convinced that trustworthiness is a key factor in effective leadership but “truth” is [...]
Posted in CPD, Culture change, Personnel on Apr 18th, 2007 5 Comments »
I’ll be e-mailing all teachers in East Lothian in the next couple of days to relaunch our Voluntary Teacher Exchange programme. We hope to open this out to other members of staff at a later date. I’d welcome any comments or queries regarding any of the following:
VOLUNTARY TEACHER EXCHANGE PROGRAMME
Background
The Voluntary Teacher Exchange Programme evolved from a [...]
Posted in CPD, Jobs, Personnel, recuitment on Apr 1st, 2007 7 Comments »
In a meeting this week we were exploring some of the essential criteria we might use for promoted posts such as Principal Teacher, Depute Head Teacher and Head Teacher.
For example -
Should anyone who wishes to become a Depute Head Teacher have been a Principal Teacher in more than one school?
Should a prospective Head Teacher have held promoted [...]
Posted in Personnel on Feb 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
My life must be really sad because I had a great day today completing our Service Improvement Plan update and our Standards and Quality Report. Sheila McKendrick and I worked from 9.15-4.00 with the documents projected onto a screen via a projector. We went through everything line by line and made incredible progress.
The process enabled [...]
Posted in Head Teachers, Personnel, School visits, Unions, Using data on Sep 1st, 2005 No Comments »
Into work at 7.30am. Bit of backlog of work needing completed. Good news when my 9.00am appointment was cancelled. 10.00am met with Zoe Thomson of Personnel who took me through a number of on-going personnel matters. Im starting to realise why its important that we have clear and well structured personnel policies. All too often [...]
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