I was recently asked what my “why” is. It was a response to the same question I had posed to a group of aspirant headteachers – I asked them, and they asked me in return. The specific question was: “Why do you want to be a headteacher?”
My response was quite simple, my motivation hasn’t really changed since I started teaching, it has just evolved as I have progressed into leadership roles.
Back in 2004, when I started teaching, I vividly remember my PGCE tutor drilling into me the importance of retaining the reasons why we selected this profession as our chosen career path.
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