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High Quality Middle Leadership Programme - Session 4 of 4
- Audience: Aspiring, new and existing middle leaders
- High Quality Middle leadership is a programme consisting of 4 twilight sessions.
- Participants can attend all 4 sessions or mix and match sessions according to their professional learning needs.
- These sessions will give participants the opportunity to reflect on their current practice and take on board practical strategies which can be implemented within their department to promote team building and raise standards.
Session 1 - Strategic vision, curriculum intent and building a successful team - Primary and Secondary
Objectives:
- Ofsted Updates
- Reflect and build upon your existing vision.
- Explore leadership styles.
- Explore team building strategies.
- Consider ways in which you can engage reluctant staff.
Session 2 - Raising standards through quality assurance strategies. - Primary and Secondary
Objectives:
- Explore a range of quality assurance strategies.
- Reflect upon your current use of quality assurance strategies.
- Consider ways in which you can further improve your approach to quality assurance strategies.
Session 3 - Effective tracking and monitoring of pupil progress. - Secondary only
Objectives:
- Update knowledge on national data types
- Develop understanding on how departmental data impacts on whole school performance.
- Analyse data to improve departmental performance.
- Using data (both quantitative and qualitative) effectively to develop intervention strategies.
Session 4 – Progression planning. - Primary and Secondary
Objectives:
- Reflect upon current advertising and recruitment practice and consider how it can be further improved.
- Consider strategies which can increase retention success.
- Discuss strategies to reduce workload.
- Consider how to increase the effectiveness of departmental meetings
Session 1 – Thursday 21st September - Primary & Secondary
Session 2 – Thursday 9th November- Primary & Secondary
Session 3 – Thursday 15th February - Secondary only
Session 4 – Thursday 18th April- Primary & Secondary
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Iridium Education
Iridium Education was founded in 2016, and since then has provided a series of high quality training courses across a wide range of topics, all of which have had glowing feedback from the course participants.
I am a practising teacher who has over 20 years’ experience in the secondary education sector, my specialist subject being science. Currently, I hold the position of Deputy Headteacher in an 11-18 school with responsibility for Quality of Education. Since being a senior leader, I have gained significant experience in leading whole school and subject specific professional development. I have completed the NPQH and been awarded a distinction in a master’s degree in educational leadership and in doing so have carried out research relating to curriculum and social justice.