Here is a summary of my course and my next steps as a leader.
Placing Personal Leadership in Action - identify three key leadership strengths you have to offer your organisation (based on Myers-Briggs report)
Thinking/Tough - My strength is objectivity with thinking, particularly being 'tough' on once a decision has been made we will follow it through ie formative assessment, teaching as inquiry
I will continue to have these as part of our agenda every week, providing examples and questions about our teaching and learning.
Expressive - open and honest to reflection on what is happening and what is not happening
I will continue to follow the process of what is happening, what is not happening and putting into action based on the mentors inquiries
I will be open, honest during SLT meetings
Vision - (this came out as a weakness - which was a surprise!) It came out that I do not share the vision of what we are trying to do very clearly- this also links to my vision in education as a whole and as a leader - not cognitively portable
I will create clear purpose and week by week approach to our team approach about preparing the teachers/students for 3 way conferences
I will be to describe a 'compelling image' of the future
I will clarify in my mind the schools vision and what this looks like on aspects that will be discussed during meetings ie I have set statements/descriptions which are cognitively portable - on the agenda have clear links to the vision
Challenge the Process - seek out challenging opportunities that test my skills ie more SLT
I will seek out/discuss the opportunity to be on the aspiring principles course
I will find innovative ways to improve what we do (outside of what is already happening in the school) - introduce an initiative within the team based on our own research findings and analysis of data - focus on one of our inquiries and push one through to begin looking at ways of putting it into action ie student voice (Rachel's inquiry)
