Should every teacher want to be a head? In a word – no. But every teacher should be ambitious, both for themselves and for each of their students.
That’s not necessarily about going for promotion or job titles. That might be about being amazing at teaching English, or at teaching children who have English as a second language, or at leading an English department.
Additionally, we do also need a significant proportion of them to want to become more senior and to take on greater responsibility. The question is whether our current system helps with either of these things, or not.
Alongside current concerns about the quantity and quality of new teachers entering the profession, we often hear parallel worries about the “supply” of good headteachers.
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