Primary Middle Leaders – Effective Practice in Action
The role of the middle leader is now recognised as being crucial in securing a focus for the development of learning and teaching throughout the school.
Primary Middle Leaders – Effective Practice in Action provides an up-to-date resource for middle leaders and headteachers in primary schools.
It offers a DVD, a booklet, an interactive website and online community.
The key elements focus on:
- what conditions enable middle leaders to be effective
- how headteachers support them, and
- the impact they have on learning and teaching.
In the DVD, the successful middle leaders:
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see themselves as leaders of learning
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engage in the following leadership activities: |
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- innovating and leading change
- setting direction and planning
- motivating and influencing others
- fostering teams and team work
- valuing inclusion
- making good use of in-depth professional knowledge and expertise
- contributing to the aims and objectives of the Primary National Strategy, and
- managing resources.
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influence teaching and learning by: |
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- modelling: leading by example
- monitoring: knowing what is going on in classrooms
- dialogue: talking and listening to colleagues, and
- setting up structures and systems to support these three behaviours.
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The DVD pack will be available from 21 March 2006.
To find out more and to order a copy go to www.ncsl.org.uk/middleleadership
