The end of the last term was difficult. I had to reapply for the position of Principal Teacher (basically a re-run of the process three months earlier with the same people) and failed. The short version was, on the day, my interview wasn’t good enough. I spent a couple of sleepless nights angry. I was […]
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From August 2020, in Scotland, gaining the Into Headship Certificate became a requirement for an individual to become a headteacher. It has always been an ambition of mine, since returning to education, to become, at some point a headteacher. Towards that end, I applied to join the program in 2019 only to be told that
Say ‘No’ to professional development. That’s the obvious conclusion to be drawn from a series of recent, rigorous, randomised-controlled studies of professional development programmes. Unlike… https://improvingteaching.co.uk/2017/03/12/why-good-professional-development-still-fails/
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