Session 1: Leadership & Management

• The differences between leadership & management of a subject
• As a leader what can you influence and what can’t you influence?
• What is expected of a subject leader? Knowing your remit.

Session 2: Subject Leadership - How to be a subject champion!

• Vision for your subject - leadership questions
• Opportunities and threats to success
• Adapting to your context - what are the needs of your community?
• Action planning / Project work
• Leadership behaviours that influence and support others

Session 3: Subject Management - how to work smarter not harder

• What makes great teaching?
• Monitoring standards in your subject how to gather evidence
• Supporting colleagues with subject knowledge - how to facilitate the learning of others
• Assessment beyond levels in your subject
• Evidencing progress and impact in your subject
• Keeping an eye on everybody’s workload

Presenter Profile

Julie Bloor has a career in education that spans over thirty years, with twenty of those in senior leadership. She worked in inner city, deprived secondary schools in Sheffield and Derbyshire. Her career saw her become a successful Head of Humanities before she was promoted to leadership. Over the past thirteen years she has been a Principal, Executive over several schools and an NLE, trained as an Ofsted Inspector run a Teaching School, worked as a director for a large Multi-Academy Chain and Chief Education Officer for another. In her first two Headships she took both schools from the bottom of their local authority league tables to the most improved schools, each with an Ofsted grade of Outstanding, she also became a Pupil Premium Reviewer due to the excellent outcomes her school achieved for their disadvantaged students. The School Improvement work she had undertaken, across a wide range of schools, has always had a significant impact. School improvement is Julie’s passion, as is ensuring all children have a first-class education that changes their life chances. Julie is currently a Trustee for Astrea Academy Trust and works delivering the new NPQHs for Ambition Institute. She lives in a village in Cambridgeshire with her husband, enjoying gardening, running and holidays to France when possible.

Cost: £250 per delegate; £299 for 2 teachers from the same school booking on this course

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