Competency

Descriptor

Moral Purpose

·       Acts in ways that are principled, built upon a clear set of personal values.

·       Contributes value as a middle leader and is passionate about making a positive difference to the lives of children and families.

·       Has an unswerving belief that schools have a crucial role to play in changing lives and improving life chances. Actions and decisions are made with the best interests of children at heart. Energised and motivated by the prospect of making a difference.

Personal Drive

·       Tackles challenging targets and achieves the highest standards within their role that goes beyond normal expectations.

·       Self motivated, energetic and willing to take on new challenges to improve own levels of performance.

·       Makes decisions having assessed what will be in the best interest for their team & pupils.

·        Seeks out opportunities and new challenges showing a desire to improve.

Self Awareness

·       Is aware of one’s personal strengths, areas for future growth & their own potential, understanding how their own behaviour impacts on others.

·       This involves being aware of one’s own emotional triggers and identifying ways to manage these more effectively.

·       Taking ownership for what one can do and sharing out responsibilities when others are better placed to carry out tasks.

Resilience and Emotional Maturity

·       Demonstrating a level of emotional maturity that enables the individual to remain tenacious and focused when faced by increasingly challenging circumstances.

·       The ability to respond appropriately, manage uncertainty and bounce back even in the most trying of situations.

Impact and Influence

·       Has a positive impact on their teams and pupils through persuading, convincing and bringing others round to their perspective.

·       Understanding others’ perspectives and priorities will enable the candidate to tailor their communication to suit their audience.

Holding to Account

·       The ability to clarify expectations, set high standards for others and ensure goals or objectives are achieved.

·       This involves holding others to account for performing in line with expectations. Part of this will also involve using one’s own position or authority to get others to do what has been asked of them, and at times, this will involve making tough or unpopular decisions.

·       These choices or actions will always be instigated with the best interests of pupils and teams in mind.

Developing Others

·       The ability to build relationships through being able to pick up on and understand the thoughts, emotions and feelings of students & colleagues, identifying reasons for why others behave the way they do.

·       Using excellent interpersonal skills, MLs are able to empower others to achieve, building a strong rapport to enable a culture of collaboration.

Curiosity and Eagerness to Learn

·       A curiosity and willingness to develop or acquire new knowledge, skills or experience regardless of the challenges involved.

·       Making the most of opportunities despite being outside of one’s comfort zone.

·       Uses initiative to create opportunities for learning, discovering different ways of doing things both within and outside of education.

·       Sees the Teaching Leaders programme as an opportunity to learn, and develop.

Conceptual Thinking

·       The ability to spot patterns between potentially unrelated concepts, effectively using data and drawing upon awareness of the bigger picture to understand a situation.

·       Able to simplify complex issues and develop innovative solutions.

Relating to others

·       The intention to lead through motivating and energising students, colleagues and other educational staff, uniting them around shared goals or objectives.