All teachers would agree that teaching is not just what happens in the classroom, but also all the pre-planning, trip organisation, displays, marking and assessment, meetings, parental phone calls, and several hundred cups of coffee (or tea, if that’s your thing) that count.
Sometimes the bulk of paperwork and emails can feel so insurmountable, so extreme, that you think it might have its own postcode.
So, when I took the position of head of department a couple years ago, I accepted the fact that admin was going to be the task I would spend the most time doing. I was wrong.
As I now realise, middle leadership is not all about the paperwork. What I have discovered is simply that middle leadership is about raising standards and achievement in your department.
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