If developing the quality of teaching is a leadership imperative is it possible for us all to teach like a champion with the right professional development? I’ve been reading, which is always a dangerous thing, or more correctly re-reading a number of books and documents in order to develop a new professional development programme. Continue reading
It’s that time of the year again when teachers dust off their appraisal or performance management documentation and review how things went then set new objectives. I wonder how many teachers actually look at last year’s objectives with a degree of surprise or consternation thinking, “What was I thinking when I agreed these” or possibly, “I don’t remember setting these.” Continue reading
Last weekend I published the 200th post on my blog. This includes a number from my original blog Head_stmarys, and I wonder what the impact on myself and others has been. Posts take different amounts of time to write but I estimate that is about 400-500 hours spent blogging plus goodness knows how long on faffing about on twitter since the first post on the 11th March 2013. Continue reading