1. Accountability and Performance Management
How to achieve and maintain high quality subject specialisms within the team
Teacher appraisal and performance management
The challenges of middle leadership
Governors and their role
Managing my time

2. A culture of continuous improvement
How to achieve and maintain high quality subject specialisms within the team

3. Strengths & Weaknesses Courageous conversations Areas for development
Summary
Objectives
Clarity
Strengths & Weaknesses
Courageous conversations
Areas for development
Links to Lesson observation
Examination / Performance data
Evidence based
Review
Mentorship, Coaching & Support
Formal processes
A model of motivation
Teacher appraisal and performance management

4. The challenges of middle leadership
Quality, Staffing, Curriculum & Marketing
The challenge of leadership: Task and People
Being outstanding
Maxwell’s model
The importance of reflection
Seeking and acting upon feedback
Leadership styles: situational approaches
Self-directed learning

6. Governors and their role
Provides a strategic view of the school by establishing a vision and setting the
purpose and aims of the school within an agreed policy framework. It appoints
and performance manages the head teacher, agreeing the school
improvement strategy which includes setting statutory targets with supporting
budgets and staffing structures
Monitors and evaluates the work of the school by reviewing the performance of
the head teacher, the effectiveness of the policy framework, progress towards
targets, and the effectiveness of the school improvement strategy
Signs off the self evaluation process and responds to school improvement service and Ofsted reports as necessary. In addition it holds the head teacher to account for the performance of the school and ensures that parents are involved, consulted and informed as appropriate, with information to the community being made available as required.

7. Managing my time
The Art of delegation
Eat that Frog!