“I got the job. Now I have a team, a budget and a department that expects a plan.”
The course: Middle Leadership: The First Hundred Days
Primary and secondary Leading others Programme
What you will be able to do
- Write a realistic first-year plan for your department or phase
- Lead a team meeting that changes practice rather than only sharing information
- Hold a conversation about a colleague’s teaching without damaging the relationship
The programme, unit by unit
88 lessons in 8 units, 29 h 20 min in all. Lessons run about 20 minutes each, so you can fit one into a free period.
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Stepping up: the role and its limits
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Vision, priorities and the development plan
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Leading the curriculum
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Leading teaching and learning
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Leading people
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Data, evidence and accountability
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Managing upward and outward
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Looking after yourself
What is in the course
Streamed video lessons, watched online.
- A hundred-day plan you build on screen as the course unfolds
- Filmed scenarios: a team meeting, a lesson visit, a conversation about underperformance
- Curriculum review, data and development-plan templates
- Guidance on working with senior leaders and governors
Who it’s for
New and aspiring subject leaders, heads of year and phase leaders.
Primary and secondary teaching.
What this course is not
- An accredited qualification. It is professional development, not an award from an exam board or a university.
- Live teaching. There is no live tutor and no timetable. You press play when you are ready.
- Marked or assessed. Nobody marks your work. Practice tasks are for your own planning and reflection.
- A replacement for your school. It does not replace your school's own induction, or a SENCo's advice about a pupil.
- Something to download. Everything is streamed online. There are no files to keep.
Watch it in your week
About 15 weeks at 2 hours a week
The lessons add up to 29 h 20 min, which is 29.3 hours. Give it 2 hours a week and 29.3 ÷ 2 = 14.7, rounded up to 15 weeks. That is about 6 lessons a week.
You have 24 months of access, so you can stop for a busy half-term and pick up where you left off.
- 1 hour a week30 weeks
- 2 hours a weekour suggestion15 weeks
- 3 hours a week10 weeks
- 5 hours a week6 weeks
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