Saturday 13 February 2010

Outstanding Department; please help

I need help. We've got a training day on the 1st day back after half term, and it is going to be brilliant. Instead of a 1 size fits all day in school, it is a cross county federation day, with different schools offering different things. So, there are sessions for NQTs and sessions for less experienced teachers. My ks3 co-ordinators are going to sessions about KS3 across the curriculum and my KS4 co-ordinator is approaching threshold, so going on a session targetting that. I've opted for a day about taking a department from good to outstanding; as a middle leader it sounded like a good idea.

So far so good. Then towards the end of last week I was asked (with 2 other HoDs) to actually run some of the session! That's where I need help. Please give me hints on how to run an outstanding department, or at least how to tell people how to run an outstanding department.

I've got some ideas, naturally. I'm going to use my Monday Morning Maths Memo as a way to share best practice, and as a way to lead a large team. I'll also mention #newleaders(if I can re-find them) and #movemeon, but would like other practical things. Please comment, or Tweet me.

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