Senior Leadership Pathways (NEW)
This programme, underpinned by the National Standards for School Leaders, is intended for senior leaders with significant whole-school experience. The programme focuses on raising school standards through implementing effective leadership developments and significant school improvement activities. The programme will also assist those senior leaders thinking of applying for PQH(NI) by identifying specific strengths and areas of knowledge or skills requiring further development and structuring the programme to build on these needs.
By the end of the programme candidates will:
- be familiar with both the National Standards for Head Teachers and National Standards for Subject leaders;
- have planned, implemented and reviewed a piece of school improvement work;
- have completed a career development profile highlighting their strengths and areas for development in the key areas of school leadership;
- have had the opportunity to take part in a peer learning process with fellow candidates;
- have experience of e-learning techniques using a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE); and
- complete and populate an e-portfolio as part of the course.
This will be primarily a self-learning programme grounded in practicality. Participants will be expected to initiate and implement their own development in line with the key areas of school leadership identified in the draft National Standards for School Leaders. There will be a substantial e-learning element to the programme with participants using online resources and related activities to enhance their knowledge and skill of school leadership. This will be supplemented with a number of twilight seminars, largely activity-based, in order to further develop the skills of leadership. The majority of the participant's leadership development work will be school based.
Participants will have had considerable experience of leading school improvement and will be looking to move up the leadership ladder possibly towards planning for headship. They will have demonstrated through an application process that they show potential for Senior Leadership. It is likely that senior leadership development was identified by the participant as an objective as part of their annual PRSD. Their involvement in this programme must be agreed by the school principal.
John Reid (jreid@rtuni.org)
Application Closing Date: Friday 17 September 2010
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