‘You CAN do it. Go for promotion NOW!’PrintEmail

The essential guide to advancing your career

There is a demographic bulge in our profession. 50% of the current teaching work force will retire over the next 12/15 years. Most of these people occupy fairly senior positions. This will create a “black hole” at the top end of the profession which will suck people through into more senior positions at younger and younger ages. It’s already started to happen. Youngest ever person appointed to the Headship of a secondary school? – 29 years old – only been teaching for 4 years! This sort of rapid ascent to more senior positions at younger ages will increasingly become the norm in the coming years. If you want it, promotion is yours for the taking. So – take up the challenge; you CAN do it, go for promotion NOW!

The aims of this course are to:

• Give advice on key skills to perfect before contemplating promotion
• Recommend key issues to consider when applying for promotion
• Suggest key aspects of your work which have to be developed if you are to succeed in your new role

COURSE OUTLINE
9.00 – 9.30 Coffee, registration and introduction
 

Session 1 - Empowering you to feel absolutely secure and confident to make that next move forward

•Demonstrating that you are an outstanding classroom practitioner
•he importance of being an effective communicator/"people person"
•Having the capacity to be a supportive yet rigorous manager and leader of colleagues
  Coffee
 

Session 2 - Choosing the post you want and ensuring you get it

•The route you choose and where it might subsequently lead
•Ensuring you get to the interview stage
•Promoting yourself on interview day to prove you are the best candidate for the post
12.30 Lunch
 

Session 3 - I'm the Headteacher interviewing you. Convince me you can, and will be highly effective in your new role in my school; immediately

•Assessment for Learning techniques for marking and questions
•Making target settings work
•Ideas to implement personal learning and thinking skills
2.30 Finish