Our experts discuss why teaching staff should aspire to leadership and the different pathways and roles within middle and senior leadership.
What kind of skills are needed for leadership? How can teaching staff – including early career teachers – develop these skills and wider leadership experience? How can they dip their toe in the water and “have a go”? What kind of leadership opportunities can teachers look out for?
We discuss different pathways, specialisms and CPD options, including via the Chartered College, WomenEd, National Professional Qualifications and other routes.
What are the common barriers to leadership aspiration and how can we overcome them? And how can schools make middle and senior leadership attractive and more diverse?
This is one of two episodes focused on career conversations. The second episode, focused on wider career pathways and progression within the secondary school, has now published and can be found here.
These episodes have been produced in partnership with Teaching Vacancies, the free-to-use job listing service from the Department for Education. To view Teaching Vacancies and sign up for job alerts today visit https://teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/
The host for this episode was Pete Henshaw, the editor of SecEd, and his guests are:
- Dame Alison Peacock, CEO, Chartered College of Teachers.
- Vivienne Porritt, Strategic Leader, WomenEd; Vice-President, Chartered College of Teachers.
- Patrick Cozier, Headteacher, Highgate Wood School, Haringey; Chair, Haringey Secondary Heads’ Forum. Patrick is also works with the Racial Equity Group within the Haringey Education Partnership.
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For details about The SecEd Podcast, or to suggest future topics, email editor Pete Henshaw at editor@sec-ed.co.uk