A greater range of CPD opportunities should be provided for experienced Headteachers, from the middle years of Headship onwards. The new national leadership pathway should not stop at Headship, but should include ways in which experienced Headteachers can continue to develop and refresh their skills and competences.
Teaching Scotland’s Future (2011)
4.1 Strategic Leadership Development Programme (SLDP) – (subject to confirmation)
Programme Objectives
The SLDP is a national programme delivered by SCEL and the Virtual Staff College. It is designed to respond to the growing need to provide challenging and effective CPD on leadership for our most experienced colleagues and to promote a shared understanding between head teachers and their local authority colleagues of how we can collaborate effectively to lead the necessary improvements in our service.
The programme offers participants the opportunity to:
- reflect on your approaches to leadership and receive coaching to develop your leadership skills;
- work with colleagues locally to influence strategic improvement;
- participate in our online learning community. This will involve browsing and researching, sharing ideas and providing a small number of short updates on progress made;
- collaborate with colleagues in other local authorities on shared themes for improvement.
Who is it for?
This course is aimed at experienced Headteachers and Central Staff who will work together on a system level project through close collaboration with other local authorities.
Programme Organisation
Working within a local authority team, you will take on one strand of a significant area for improvement. The learning model includes:
- personal reflection on your approaches to leadership;
- briefings locally and nationally;
- online learning : eportfolio, web-conferencing, online posts;
- choices of coaching models, including face-to-face, online one-to-one coaching, action learning sets and online action learning sets;
- local and inter-authority collaboration;
- sharing of conclusions locally and nationally.
4.2 Secondment Opportunities
Throughout the school year, there are opportunities to be seconded to the Central Team to work on specific projects. These will be advertised in View and will be open to promoted staff.
4.3 Leadership opportunities – Strategic Leadership
We are looking for our highly experienced Headteachers to take on strategic leadership positions within the Children and Learning Directorate through the leadership of a range of working groups. There will also be opportunities to lead strategic aspects of the work of Schools and Learning. These are an excellent professional learning opportunities for experienced Headteachers.
Please contact the relevant Service Manager Schools and Learning if you would like to be considered to lead aspects of our work.
