Programme overview

• Two-year professional development programme based in-post
• A residential week to be held each summer
• Coaching by an external, experienced urban practitioner
• Work discussion groups (5-6 people in a group problem-solving real issues every month, with a facilitator)
• Master classes, workshops and seminars
• School visits
• In-school project (with targets and measurable outcomes)

Teaching Leaders is an intensive professional development programme aimed directly at improving pupil achievement through more effective leadership in urban schools.

The programme begins with a six-day residential course where you will work with your fellow participants to understand the role and potential impact of leadership in schools. You will learn about the teaching and learning strategies that make up the programme and, of course, begin building a network of peers that will support and sustain you, and help you share ideas and innovations.

Throughout the two-year programme you will continue to benefit from facilitated work discussion or supervision groups and expert one-to-one coaching. There will also be regular training and development events - conferences, presentations, workshops, seminars and master classes and ongoing access to online learning materials.

The programme will require you to commit to approximately 8 days of training per year (split into evening and one-day sessions at weekends/half-terms), as well as several days of coaching (in-school) each year, and the residential weeks in August.

The programme content will cover the following key areas:

Leading Teaching and Learning - common core systems and processes

• Analysis, review and planning, monitoring and evaluation
• Creating a collective culture of high expectations
• How to use school and pupil performance data to drive up standards
• What makes a great lesson and how we know
• Literacy across the curriculum
• Supporting learning and behaviour management
• Working with stakeholders

Leading Teams - developing capacity, accelerating maturity

• Leading and managing staff
• Efficient and effective management of staff and resources
• Key leadership skills and attributes - taking up authority in role

Once you have completed your two years of training, Teaching Leaders asks you to give back to the programme by helping at recruitment events, becoming a qualified Teaching Leaders Assessor, representing the programme at events and supporting participants through training. Although the commitment required is not significant, this is a way of allowing our alumni stay connected to the programme, and enabling them to contribute in a wider sense to the Teaching Leaders mission.