INSET: Management Development for Headteachers, Subject Leaders and SENCos

Management Development

Aim

The aim of management development in Northumberland is to provide professional leadership for schools which secures their success and improvement, ensuring high quality education for all pupils and improved standards of achievement. This will be achieved through improving the performance of school management at all levels. Management development support will help teachers and headteachers to exercise their responsibilities more effectively.

Entitlement

Provision of management support is aimed at all those teachers with a responsibility for the work of other adults.

Relationship to the National Standards

The Teacher Training Agency has developed a national framework of professional standards and qualifications for the teaching profession. This sets out the knowledge, skills and attributes required to perform key roles effectively and the expected outcomes in relation to pupils, other staff, parents and the community. There are standards for:

• Headteachers
• Subject leaders
• SENCO’s

Whilst management development training and support in Northumberland will be informed by and reflect the National Standards it will be complementary to rather than in place of any national training offered.

Appraisal

The White Paper, "Excellence in Schools", makes clear the intention to review and amend existing arrangements for teacher and headteacher appraisal in order to ensure they provide an effective check on the quality of teacher performance. Key elements in these new arrangements are likely to be:

• Classroom observation
• An assessment of the results achieved by pupils in a teacher’s care
• An annual performance review linked to targets for enhanced pupil performance

When changes to current arrangements are made Northumberland will respond by providing school based and central training. In the meantime schools will want to review their own current arrangements in the light of the likely shift of emphasis.

Conferences

Conferences will be held during the academic year 1999/2000 for headteachers and senior staff. These conferences will be planned on a phase basis by working groups made up of advisers and headteachers. There will be charges for delegates attending with preferential rates for schools in the SLA.

Further details of this provision are available from:

• First Wendy Hogg, Adviser for First Schools
• Middle Andy Downing, Senior Adviser
• High Bill Humphrey, Senior Adviser
• Special Sherry Pinner, Adviser, SEN

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