head teachers
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What do Head Teachers
worry about?
Here are 3 main reasons why Head Teachers may have sleepless nights…
The balance between paperwork and knowing
your students
• Results are becoming more important to schools, Head Teachers are
trying to be inspirational and personal while keeping an eye on
attainment and assessment.
• This is leading to higher levels of stress for Head Teachers due to the
attempts to get the correct balance between these two important
aspects of the job.
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Making Coherence
• Teachers need to put their expert knowledge about Maths or English
together in a coherent whole, while simultaneously making sense of the
context – the local community, national changes, staff and student
turnover, resources. This all needs to piece together to form a collective
school community.
• This triumph to make the school a community has many different
aspects which all need to piece together, this can be a difficult
challenge which teachers find themselves participating in.
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Negotiating with other stakeholders
• A school’s vision is determined by the Head Teacher, but working with
the stakeholders is vital to make sure decisions are taken with full
support of the Board. Finding the right decisions which will be best for
the school and having all parties agreeing with these decisions may
take a long period of time with many decisions.
• All these changes will have affects on the school, knowing if they will
be positive or negative is the risk Head teachers face which causes
stress.
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Charting Improvement
• Head Teachers use comparative benchmarking, comparing data from
their own and other schools. They are keen on ‘benchmarking’, but they
do it in a climate of encouraging risk.
• They ensure there is a proper mix of ‘appreciative enquiry’ and ‘problem
solving’. Appreciative enquiring involves finding and celebrating what’s
good and engaging on a search for what’s outstanding.
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Better Time Management
• Head Teachers have so much on their plate that balancing everything
becomes nearly impossible. Time management is always at the front of
their minds
• This may be aided by creating daily plans, pegging time limits to each
task. These two tips can be used together in order to prevent dragging
your work on and getting tasks done in an orderly, organised and
simple manner.
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Better ways to use technology
• Head Teachers know that their pupils are always online – and increasing
their engagement with technology, and working out what technology they
should be using – is important.
• Being up to date and making sure the rest of the staff all have the same
knowledge about current technology is vital to make sure students are
reviving the best and the same standard of education which can boost
engagement and help understanding leading to better exam results.
Future changes
• With Michael Gove talking about changing up the education system,
possible changes and the latest news are on all head teachers’ minds.
• Having an open mind may be the easiest way for Head Teachers to ease
stress on this particular issue. No one can be prepared for the future
changes in education but knowing that it will change is the easiest option.
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