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Start Point: New To Subject Leadership
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Unit price / perAre you stepping into your first subject leadership role? Congratulations! Balancing the responsibilities of leadership and teaching can be challenging, but fear not. Honeyguide is here to support you on this exciting journey. Our comprehensive resource for new subject leaders provides you with all the ideas for tasks to complete in your first week, half-term and term as a subject leader. Designed to be fully editable, adapt and amend it with support from a mentor in school to tailor it to your new role. Let us support your thinking and workload so you can find balance as a new subject leader.
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Start Point: New To Subject Leadership
Are you stepping into your first subject leadership role? Congratulations! Balancing the responsibilities of leadership and teaching can be challenging, but fear not. Honeyguide is here to support you on this exciting journey. Our comprehensive resource for new subject leaders provides you with all the ideas for tasks to complete in your first week, half-term and term as a subject leader. Designed to be fully editable, adapt and amend it with support from a mentor in school to tailor it to your new role. Let us support your thinking and workload so you can find balance as a new subject leader.
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A 15-page fully editable checklist to support your thinking as you embark on your first subject leadership role.
Read through the list at your own pace and start to consider some of the tasks, such as when you'll complete them by or what support you'll need. Add or delete any tasks that are specific to you and your setting and keep the document stored somewhere easy-to-access so you can keep referring to it while you balance the leadership needs of your new role and your classroom teaching commitments.
New subject leads, aspiring subject leaders and anyone who's curious as to the typical tasks a subject leader will do in their first term of subject leadership will find this free checklist useful.
This free checklist will help you to find out what jobs and tasks are typical in the first term of subject leadership.
Why not take a look at the following helpful resources:
- Subject Leadership: Evaluating Impact and Planning Ahead
- Monitoring Start Point: Initial Information Exploration
- Monitoring Start Point: Teacher Subject Knowledge
- Deep Dive Packs for all National Curriculum subject areas
- Class Teacher with Subject Leadership Interview Pack
- Subject Leader Skills Audit Pack
This guide is really well made and goes in detail about the different aspect of subject leadership to consider when taking the new role. Some of the criteria depend on the type of school we are in so I had to take off some of them but it's really helps me think ahead what to consider and the questions I might ask. thank you so much for sharing this guide.
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Whether you're a new subject leader creating your first subject folder or an experienced curriculum coordinator wanting to ensure your documentation is comprehensive and well-organised, this Subject Leader Folder Pack provides you with everything you need.
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